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010  BIBLIOGRAPHY 

014  Of  special  forms 

Frey,  A.  R. 

Sobriquets  and  nicknames.  1887.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Reference.)  Alphabetic  dictionary  of  fictitious  names  applied  to  real  persons  in  stones  and 
poems;  of  personal  epithets;  nicknames  of  literary  men;  historical  characters,  etc.,  with  index 
of  true  names.  — New  York  state  library. 

016  Of  special  subjects 
016.9  History 

Winsor,  Justin. 

Reader’s  handbook  of  the  American  revolution,  1761-1783.  1899. 

[i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Beginning  with  the  first  discontent  with  British  rule,  indicates  where  the  best  information  on 
each  point  is  to  be  gathered.  — C.  K.  Adams,  Manual  of  historical  literature. 

[It  points  out  the  original  sources  in  which  the  writers  have  found  their  materials,  and  at  the 
same  time  indicates  many  of  the  second-hand  authorities.  Mr.  Winsor,  however,  has  not  confined 
himself  to  a list  of  titles,  but  has  introduced  a copious  fund  of  brief  critical  notices,  which  are 
always  opportune  and  suggestive,  marked  by  singular  discrimination  and  justness,  and  often  ot 
great  bibliographical  value,  as  well  as  a practical  guide  to  the  student  of  American  History.  New 
"Y ovk  TP T'tb'tiTtc  • 

The  volume  furnishes  a very  complete  bibliography  of  the  Revolutionary  struggle.  The 
Independent  (New  York).] 


020  LIBRARY  ECONOMY 
028  Reading  and  aids 

Counsel  upon  the  reading  of  books.  1900.  [i2mo.]  $1.50* 

Contents:  Preface  on  reading  and  books,  by  Henry  Van  Dyke;  History,  by  H.  Morse  Stephens; 
Memoirs  and  biography,  by  Agnes  Repplier;  Sociology,  economics  and  politics,  by  A.  T.  Hadley, 
c The  study  of  fiction,  by  Brander  Matthews;  Poetry,  by  Bliss  Perry;  Essay  and  criticism,  by  H.  W. 
Mabie. 

[Each  writer  treats  of  his  specialty,  and  does  it  with  the  grace  and  vigor  which  has  made  every 
, one  of  the  names  given  well  known  and  trulv  appreciated.  — Boston  J ournal .] 

050  GENERAL  PERIODICALS,  MAGAZINES 

Poole’s  index  to  periodical  literature.  Abridged  edition  covering  37  peri- 
odicals. 1815-1899.  1901.  [Royal  8vo.]  $12.00,  net.  [Postage,  52 

cents.] 

(Reference.)  The  full  set  of  Poole's  index,  comprising  5 vols.  ([royal  8vo]  $52,  net),  covering  the 
full  period  1815-1901,  should  be  bought  when  libraries  can  afford  it,  especially  if  near  large  libraries 
owning  many  sets  of  magazines  to  which  patrons  may  have  access.  — Editor  for  selection. 


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[No  matter  where  you  open  the  “Index,”  it  is  both  a surprise  and  delight  to  any  one  who  examines 
or  consults  it.  . . . It  is  impossible  to  exhaust,  in  a general  way,  the  enumeration  of  the  benefits 
which  are  likely  to  result  from  the  circulation  of  this  work.  — New  York  Times. 

The  Abridged  Edition  is  now  brought  down  to  1905  by  the  publication  of  a Supplement  covering 
the  years  1900-1904.] 

051  American  periodicals 

Atlantic  monthly.  Yearly.  $4.00. 

Index  to  v.  61-66,  1888-1901.  [8vo.]  $2.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

[The  quality  and  variety  of  the  articles  are  not  less  noteworthy  than  the  reputation  of  the  con- 
tributors. Whatever  is  of  most  moment  in  the  several  departments  of  literature  and  criticism,  of 
art  and  social  life,  of  politics  and  morals,  finds  room  in  these  pages;  and  both  in  the  selection  and 
treatment  of  topics  so  much  skill  and  good  taste  are  shown  that  it  is  wholly  within  bounds  to  say 
that  no  other  American  magazine  contains  so  little  that  the  average  reader  can  afford  to  “skip.”  — 
Boston  Journal .] 


100  PHILOSOPHY 


no  METAPHYSICS 

113-119  Cosmology 

Fiske,  John. 

Outlines  of  cosmic  philosophy,  based  on  the  doctrine  of  evolution. 
4 vols.  1903.  [Crown  8vo.]  $8.00. 

By  no  means  a mere  reproduction  of  Spencer’s  philosophy,  but  an  independent  exposition  of 
Evolutionism  showing  originality,  especially  in  regard  to  social  evolution  and  the  relation  of  religion 
and  science. 

[You  must  allow  me  to  thank  you  for  the  very  great  interest  with  which  I have  at  last  slowly 
read  the  whole  of  your  work.  ...  I never  in  my  life  read  so  lucid  an  expositor  (and  therefore 
thinker)  as  you  are;  and  I think  that  I understand  nearly  the  whole,  though  perhaps  less  clearly 
about  cosmic  theism  and  causation  than  other  parts.  It  is  hopeless  to  attempt  out  of  so  much 
to  specify  what  has  interested  me  most,  and  probably  you  would  not  care  to  hear.  It  pleased  me 
to  find  that  here  and  there  I had  arrived,  from  my  own  crude  thoughts,  at  some  of  the  same  conclu- 
sions with  you,  though  I could  seldom  or  never  have  given  my  reasons  for  such  conclusions.  — 
Charles  Darwin.] 

120  OTHER  METAPHYSICAL  TOPICS 

128  The  soul 

James,  William. 

Human  immortality;  two  supposed  objections  to  the  doctrine.  1898. 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Simple,  clear,  and  candid. 

130  Mind  and  body 

Jastrow,  Joseph. 

Fact  and  fable  in  psychology.  1900.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Reprint  of  magazine  essays.  Discusses  problems  of  psychic  research,  mental  telegraphy, 
spiritualism,  hypnotism,  the  psychology  of  deception,  dreams  of  the  blind,  etc.  — New  York 
state  library. 


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150  Psychology 

Miinsterberg,  Hugo. 

Psychology  and  life.  1899.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Contents:  Psychology  and  life;  Psychology  and  physiology;  Psychology  and  education;  Psy- 
chology and  art;  Psychology  and  history;  Psychology  and  mysticism. 

Reprinted  from  the  Atlantic  monthly,  Psychological  review,  and  Educational  review. 

Chief  aim  is  the  separation  of  conceptions  of  physiology  from  conceptions  of  our  real  life. 

Remarkably  clear  and  vigorous.  — T.  E.  Creighton,  in  Philosophical  review. 

Shinn,  Millicent  W. 

The  biography  of  a baby.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.)  Psychologic  study  of  the  first  year  of  a child’s  life. 

170  Ethics 

Bowker,  Richard  Rogers. 

The  arts  of  life.  1900.  [i6mo.]  $1.25,  net.  [Postage,  8 cents.] 

On  attainment  of  the  highest  results  in  character-culture  and  human  relations  through  every- 
day life,  and  enlightened  use  of  education,  business,  politics  and  religion.  — New  York  state  library. 

[In  this  little  tastefully  made  volume  Mr.  Bowker  happily  combines  the  insight  of  a man  of 
strong  religious  nature  and  definite  ethical  convictions  with  the  results  of  intelligent  observation 
and  a deep  sympathy  with  the  best  movements  of  his  time  and  with  the  highest  aspirations  of  his 
fellows.  . . . This  volume  is  the  product  of  wise,  broad,  and  sane  thinking  and  observation.  — The 
Outlook .] 

Gilman,  N.  P.,  and  Jackson,  E.  P. 

Conduct  as  a fine  art:  laws  of  daily  conduct,  by  N.  P.  Gilman;  char- 
acter-building by  E.  P.  Jackson.  1891.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

To  aid  public  school  teachers  in  giving  moral  instruction  apart  from  religious  doctrine. 

[Each  essay  is  filled  with  true  and  helpful  thoughts  forcibly  expressed.  — The  Nation  (New 
York). 

Mr.  Gilman’s  essay  will  prove  a delightful  revelation  to  many  a teacher  who  has  sought  in  vain 
to  gather  inspiration  from  the  current  conventional  handbooks  on  “mdral  science.”  — American 
Journal  of  Education.] 

Palmer,  George  Herbert. 

The  field  of  ethics.  (William  Belden  Noble  lecture,  1899.)  1901.  [i2mo.] 
$1.10,  net.  [Postage,  n cents.] 

(Readable.)  In  respect  of  teaching  power  an  excellent  and  wholesome  essay.  — Philosophical 
review. 

[Embodies  a method  unusual  in  such  books,  of  determining  “the  place  of  ethics  in  a rational 
scheme  of  the  universe.”  “A  timely  production  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  real  domain  of  ethics 
is  a question  which  is  at  present  very  much  under  discussion.  . . . The  literary  quality  of  the 
book  is  unquestionable.”  — Yale  Review .] 

The  nature  of  goodness.  1903.  [i2mo.]  $1.10,  net.  [Postage,  11 

cents.] 

Contents:  Double  aspect  of  goodness;  Misconceptions  of  goodness;  Self-consciousness;  Self- 
direction;  Self-sacrifice;  Nature  and  spirit;  The  three  stages  of  goodness. 

The  Field  of  ethics  marked  out  the  place  which  ethics  occupies  among  the  sciences.  In  this 
book  the  first  problem  of  ethics  is  examined. 


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171  Theories 

Harris,  George. 

Moral  evolution.  1896.  [Crown  8vo.]  $2.00. 

Its  purpose  is  to  establish  the  harmony  of  personal  and  social  morality  with  the  facts  of  evolution. 

173  Family  ethics 

Wiggin,  Mrs.  Kate  Douglas. 

Children’s  rights:  a book  of  nursery  logic.  1892.  [i6mo.]  $1.00. 

(Readable.)  On  the  management  and  education  of  little  children;  talks  on  children’s  reading, 
plays,  the  kindergarten,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

178  Temperance 

Koren,  John. 

Economic  aspects  of  the  liquor  problem;  an  investigation  made  for  the 
Committee  of  fifty,  under  the  direction  of  H.  W.  Farnam.  1899. 
[i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Wines,  F.  H.  and  Koren,  John,  editors . 

The  liquor  problem  in  its  legislative  aspects.  2d  ed.  1898.  [With 
maps.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 

Work  of  a sub-committee  of  the  Committee  of  fifty  to  investigate  the  liquor  problem. 

2d  edition  contains  new  chapter  on  operation  of  New  York  (Raines)  liquor  tax  law,  and  brings 
down  to  date  observations  on  South  Carolina  dispensary  system,  Massachusetts  and  Pennsylvania 
liquor  legislation.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

190  Modem  philosophers 

Royce,  Josiah. 

The  spirit  of  modern  philosophy.  1892.  [8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.  Readable.) 

Historical  account  of  the  most  prominent  philosophic  thinkers  and  their  problems.  Pt.  2,  the 
author’s  own  confession  of  philosophic  faith.  — T.  E.  Creighton,  in  Philosophical  review. 


200  RELIGION 

201  Philosophy  of  religion 

Abbott,  Lyman. 

The  evolution  of  Christianity.  2d  ed.  1893.  (Lowell  institute  lec- 
tures.) [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

For  intelligent  laymen,  on  the  philosophy  of  Christianity.  — George  A.  Gordon,  in  Andover 
review. 

[Dr.  Abbott,  being  a devout  Darwinian  and  Huxleyan,  holds  that  Christianity  is  an  evolution, 
and  he  avers  that  the  present  volume  is  “an  attempt  to  restate  the  eternal  yet  ever  new  truths  of 
the  religious  life  in  the  terms  of  modern  philosophic  thought.”  — New  York  Times. 

While  Dr.  Abbott  in  this  book  sets  aside  various  traditional  beliefs,  in  addition  to  its  transcendent 
worth  as  a philosophical  statement  of  what  is  commonly  called  “the  new  theology,”  it  has  the 
negative  merit  of  exhibiting  no  tokens  of  a wantonly  iconoclastic  spirit.  Old  and  obsolete  beliefs 
are  treated  tenderly  and  reverently.  — Rev.  Dr.  A.  P.  Peabody.] 


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204  Essays 

Burroughs,  John. 

The  light  of  day.  1900.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

McKenzie,  Alexander. 

Divine  force  in  the  life  of  the  world.  1898.  (Lowell  institute  lectures.) 
[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

210  Natural  theology 

Fiske,  John. 

Through  nature  to  God.  1899.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Contents:  The  mystery  of  evil;  The  cosmic  roots  of  love  and  self-sacrifice;  The  everlasting 
reality  of  religion. 

An  argument  for  theism  from  the  evolutionary  standpoint.  — New  York  state  library. 


2 1 1 Deism 

Fiske,  John. 

The  idea  of  God  as  affected  by  modern  knowledge.  1885.  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.00. 

Its  value  lies  in  the  impression  that  it  intentionally  makes  that  theism  is  necessary  to  any  com- 
prehensive view  of  evolution.  — George  Harris,  in  Andover  review. 

[Mr.  Fiske  has  done  much  in  other  productions  to  show  his  power  of  mastering  and  reporting 
the  opinions  of  others,  but  in  his  two  latest  books  he  takes  his  rightful  place  as  a clear,  strong,  and 
original  thinker,  advancing  reverently  into  an  untrodden  field,  and  rendering  a service  to  natural 
theology  which  is  as  great,  if  not  greater,  than  any  which  he  has  heretofore  rendered  to  science.  — 
Boston  Advertiser. 

So  admirable  in  ' its  precision,  so  clear  in  its  logic,  so  reverent  in  its  tone  while  sifting  with 
uncompromising  sincerity  for  truth  and  evidence,  that  it  is  like  a beautiful  geometric  drawing.  — 
The  Critic  (New  York).] 


215  Religion  and  science 

Shaler,  Nathaniel  S. 

The  interpretation  of  nature.  1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Points  toward  ultimate  harmony  between  religion  and  science.  — New  York  state  library. 


218  Immortality 

Fiske,  John. 


The  destiny  of  man.  9th  ed.  1886.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

It  may  re-assure  those  who  cannot  deny  many  of  the  conclusions  of  evolution,  yet  who  fear  its 
effects  on  religious  beliefs.  — George  Harris,  in  Andover  review. 


Life  everlasting.  1901.  (Ingersoll  lecture,  1900.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.00,  net.  [Postage,  7 cents.] 

Infers  from  man’s  past  development  the  probability  of  his  continued  life.  — New  York  state 
library. 

[At  an  early  age  inquiries  into  the  nature  of  human  progress  led  him  (Fiske)  to  a careful  study 
of  the  doctrine  of  evolution,  and  it  was  as  an  expounder  of  this  doctrine  that  he  first  became  known 
to  the  public.  In  1871  he  arrived  at  the  discovery  of  the  causes  of  the  prolonged  infancy  of  man- 


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kind,  and  the  part  played  by  it  in  determining  human  development;  and  the  importance  of  this 
contribution  to  the  Darwinian  theory,  now  generally  admitted,  was  immediately  recognized  by 
Darwin  and  Spencer.  — Appletons ’ Cyclopedia  of  American  Biography. 

Mr.  Fiske’s  work,  in  the  interpretation  which  it  contains  of  the  higher  phases  and  aspects  of 
the  evolution  philosophy,  meets  a real  and  growing  need  of  the  times.  — Celia  P.  Woolley,  in 
the  Chicago  Weekly  Magazine .] 

Gordon,  George  A. 

Immortality  and  the  new  theodicy.  1897.  (Ingersoll  lecture,  1896.) 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

220  BIBLE 

Royce,  Josiah. 

The  conception  of  immortality.  1900.  (Ingersoll  lecture,  1899.) 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

220.1  Inspiration 

Gladden,  Washington. 

Who  wrote  the  Bible?  1891.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.)  Gives  compactly  the  principal  facts  on  which  scholars  now 
generally  agree  concerning  the  literary  history  of  the  Bible.  — New  York  state  library. 

221  Old  Testament 

Abbott,  Lyman. 

Life  and  literature  of  the  ancient  Hebrews.  1901.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $2.00. 

Aims  to  show  that  the  results  of  modern  criticism  enhance  the  value  of  the  Bible  as  an  instrument 
for  the  cultivation  of  spiritual  faith.  — New  York  state  library. 

Gladden,  Washington. 

Seven  puzzling  Bible  books;  a supplement  to  “ Who  wrote  the  Bible?  ” 
1897.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Contents;  Judges;  Esther;  Job;  Ecclesiastes;  The  song  of  songs; 
Daniel;  Jonah. 

225  New  Testament 
SAINT  PAUL 
Abbott,  Lyman. 

The  life  and  letters  of  Paul  the  apostle.  1898.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.50. 

230  Theology 

Allen,  A.  V.  G. 

Continuity  of  Christian  thought:  a study  of  modern  theology  in  the 
light  of  its  history.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Mr.  Allen  has  that  rarest  of  gifts,  the  power  to  write  on  theological  subjects  with  the  calm  temper 
and  the  fair  judgment  of  a true  historian.  — The  Christian  Register  (Boston). 


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[This  book  cannot  fail  to  commend  itself  to  that  great  body  of  persons,  in  or  out  of  the  sects,  who 
are  tired  of  controversy,  but  who  will  not  seek  repose  at  the  cost  of  either  their  religious  instinct  or 
their  own  reason.  — The  Nation  (New  York).] 

Bradford,  A.  H. 

Age  of  faith.  1900.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Interprets  theories  about  God,  man,  and  the  universe  in  light  of  God’s  fatherhood.  — New  York 
state  library. 

[He  discusses  great  truths  of  religion  in  their  relation  to  the  problems  of  life.  Many  passages 
linger  in  memory  for  their  terse,  telling  condensation  of  vital  truth.  — The  Congregationalist 
(Boston).] 

Clarke,  J.  F. 

Common-sense  in  religion:  essays.  1901.  [Crown  8vo.]  $2.00. 

[Dr.  Clarke  has  much  to  say  which  commends  itself  to  our  judgment  and  our  feelings.  There 
is  a certain  vigor  in  his  thought,  and  an  absolute  clearness  in  his  style,  together  with  an  evident 
and  rugged  honesty  and  strength  of  conviction  underlying  all,  which  make  him  an  impressive 
teacher,  even  when  we  cannot  bring  ourselves  to  accept  his  instructions.  — The  Congregationalist 
(Boston).] 

Gladden,  Washington. 

How  much  is  left  of  the  old  doctrines?  1899.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(Popular  treatment.) 

Gordon,  G.  A. 

Ultimate  conceptions  of  faith.  1903.  (Lyman  Beecher  lecture,  1902.) 

[Crown  8vo.]  $1.30,  net.  [Postage,  15  cents.] 

Hyde,  W.  DeW. 

God’s  education  of  man.  1899.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Mulford,  Elisha. 

Republic  of  God.  1897.  [8vo.]  $2.00. 

232  Christology 

Gordon,  G.  A. 

Christ  of  to-day.  1895.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

(Readable.)  Essay  in  modern  theology.  Characterized  by  deep  reverence  and  a truly  catholic 
spirit.  — G.  B.  Stevens,  in  New  world. 

Hughes,  Thomas. 

Manliness  of  Christ.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Undertakes  to  show  that  character  of  Christ  comprised  all  elements  of  true  manliness  not  only 
as  exhibited  in  charity,  meekness  and  purity,  but  in  patience,  fortitude  and  courage.  — Harper's 
monthly  magazine. 

234  Salvation 

Gordon,  G.  A. 

New  epoch  for  faith.  1901.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

About  one  half  of  this  volume  Lowell  institute  lectures. 

Interprets  spiritual  meanings  of  19th  century,  and  maintains  that  religion  has  been  lifted  above 
old  dogmas  to  a stronger  and  purer  faith.  — New  York  state  library. 


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239  Evidences  of  Christianity 

Pascal,  Blaise. 

Thoughts,  letters  and  opuscules;  translated  from  the  French  by  O.  W. 
Wight.  1887.  [i2mo.]  $2.25. 

This  translation  was  first  published  in  1859. 

[We  devoutly  pray  Heaven  that  these  sublime  Thoughts  of  one  of  the  greatest  souls  vouchsafed 
to  earth  may  inspire  many  a reader  with  humble  reverence  for  religious  truth.  We  regard  Pascal 
not  only  as  the  greatest  genius,  but  as  the  holiest  man  that  France  has  produced.  To  the  young 
men  of  America  we  commend  a writer  in  whom  greatness  and  rectitude  of  mind  were  combined  in 
an  equal  degree.  — O.  W.  Wight,  in  Preface.] 


244  Miscellany 

Brown,  A.  F. 

Book  of  saints  and  friendly  beasts.  1900.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Legends  of  the  lesser  saints  and  the  animals  associated  with  them  retold 
as  simple  folk  tales.  — New  York  state  library. 

[No  child,  and  no  grown  reader,  can  take  up  the  Book  of  Saints  and  Friendly  Beasts  without  a 
sensation  of  pleasure  that  deepens  as  one  reads,  whether  the  stories  are  read  for  the  first  time, 
or  reread  with  all  the  thronging  memories  of  other  days.  The  author  has  done  her  work  with 
exquisite  tact  and  skill.  — Donahoe’s  Magazine.] 


252  Sermons 

Munger,  T.  T. 

Freedom  of  faith.  1883.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

17  sermons,  preceded  by  an  essay  on  “The  new  theology.” 

Lamps  and  paths.  2d  ed.  1885.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Sermons  for  children’s  Sunday  in  June.  — Editor  for  selection. 

Peabody,  F.  G. 

Afternoons  in  the  college  chapel:  short  addresses  to  young  men  on 
personal  religion.  1898.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Supplements  his  Mornings  in  the  college  chapel. 

[The  sermons,  as  such,  deserve  to  rank  with  the  noblest  productions  of  modern  times;  they 
have  the  large  sympathies  of  Beecher,  the  exegetical  tact  of  Robertson,  the  literary  finish  of  Vaughan, 
and  the  daring  of  Maurice.  — British  Quarterly  Review. 

The  prefatory  essay  certainly  contains  the  fullest  and  clearest  statement  of  what  the  “new 
theology”  is  with  which  we  have  ever  met.  . . . This  volume  is  most  fascinating.  The  Congre- 
gationalist  (Boston).] 

260  CHURCH:  INSTITUTION 

261  Church  influence 

Gladden,  Washington. 

Applied  Christianity : moral  aspects  of  social  questions.  1886.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

Social  salvation.  1902.  (Lyman  Beecher  lecture,  1902.)  [i6mo.] 

$1.00,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

[A  consideration  of  the  relation  of  the  pulpit  to  social  questions  of  the  day,  addressed  not  only 
to  the  ministry,  but  to  all  thoughtful  citizens.] 


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270  RELIGIOUS  HISTORY 

271  Monastic  orders 

Pascal,  Blaise. 

Provincial  letters:  a new  translation  with  introduction  and  notes  by 
Thomas  M’Crie,  preceded  by  a life  of  Pascal,  a critical  essay,  and  a 
biographical  notice;  edited  by  O.  W.  Wight.  1887.  [i2mo.]  $2.25. 

[As  the  Letters  were  the  first  model  of  French  prose,  so  they  still  remain  the  objects  of  unqualified 
admiration.  — Edinburgh  Review.] 

290  NON-CHRISTIAN  RELIGIONS 

Clarke,  J.  F. 

Ten  great  religions.  2 v.  1899.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00  each. 

Contents:  Pt.  i,  An  essay  in  comparative  theology:  Pt.  2,  A comparison  of  all  religions. 

His  design  is  by  comparing  them  with  one  another  and  with  Christianity  to  bring  clearly  to  view 
both  their  distinctive  traits  and  their  characteristic  weaknesses.  — Nation. 

291  Comparative  and  general  mythology 

Fiske,  John. 

Myths  and  myth-makers;  old  tales  and  superstitions  interpreted  by 
comparative  mythology.  1900.  [Crown  8vo.]  $2.00. 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel. 

Tanglewood  tales  for  girls  and  boys;  being  a second  Wonder  book; 
illustrated  by  G.  W.  Edwards.  1887.  $2.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  The  library  should  have  at  least  one  copy  of  the  edition  illustrated  by 
G.  W.  Edwards,  Houghton  $2.50,  to  attract  children  to  plainer  editions,  Houghton  (Little  classic 
edition)  $1,  and  Riverside  school  library  70  cents.  — Editor  for  selection. 

Wonder  book  for  girls  and  boys;  with  60  designs  by  Walter  Crane. 
1902.  $3.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  The  library  should  have  at  least  one  copy  of  the  edition  illustrated  by 
Walter  Crane,  Houghton  $3,  to  attract  children  to  plainer  editions,  Houghton  $1.25,  and,  in  River- 
side school  library,  with  Tanglewood  tales,  70  cents.  — Editor  for  selection. 

293  Teutonic  and  northern  mythology 

Brown,  A.  F. 

In  the  days  of  giants.  1902.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.10,  net.  [Post- 
age, 11  cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Stories  from  Norse  mythology.  — New  York  state  library. 

300  SOCIOLOGY 

304  Essays,  addresses 

Abbott,  Lyman. 

Christianity  and  social  problems.  1896.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Its  value  lies  in  its  wide  range  of  suggestions,  — its  earnest  spirit  of  humanity.  — C.  R.  Hender- 
son, in  American  journal  of  sociology. 


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Rights  of  man:  a study  in  twentieth  century  problems.  1901.  (Lowell 
institute  lectures,  1901.)  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.30,  net.  [Postage,  14  cents.] 

Contents:  Conflict  of  the  centuries;  Growth  of  democracy;  Political  rights;  Industrial  rights; 
Educational  rights;  Religious  rights;  American  democracy;  American  domestic  problems;  Ameri- 
can foreign  problems;  Perils  of  democracy;  Safeguards;  Goal  of  democracy. 

Bibliography,  pref.  p.  9-1 1. 

[“It  represents  the  views  of  an  energetic  mind  on  some  of  the  most  important  questions  of  the 
day.”  (Industrial,  economic,  political,  social,  and  religious  questions,  as  they  grow  out  of,  and 
in  turn  affect,  the  American  democracy.)  “It  states  without  acrimony  or  exaggeration  the  short- 
comings, dangers,  and  imperfections  of  the  present  state  of  things  in  America.”] 

Morison,  G.  S. 

The  new  epoch  as  developed  by  the  manufacture  of  power.  1903. 
[i6mo.]  $0.75,  net.  [Postage,  7 cents.] 

(Readable.)  Points  out  the  astonishing  changes  wrought  in  business,  capital,  government,  civil 
engineering,  education,  through  increasing  development,  and  application  of  power.  — New  York 
state  library. 

320  POLITICAL  SCIENCE 

Mulford,  Elisha. 

The  nation:  the  foundations  of  civil  order  and  political  life  in  the 
United  States.  1898.  [8vo.]  $2.50. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  A theory  of  the  state  from  standpoint  of  the  Hegelian 
philosophy  and  the  Christian  religion.  Learned,  able,  and  valuable.  — P.  Schaff. 

[It  is  a very  able  discussion  of  what  is  to  me  one  of  the  most  important  branches  of  political 
philosophy.  Every  page  I have  read  surprises  me  with  the  extent  and  thoroughness  of  the  author’s 
study,  and  the  freshness  and  vigor  of  his  discussion.  — James  A.  Garfield. 

I have  read  The  Nation  from  the  first  to  the  last  with  constant  interest  and  sympathy.  It  is  a 
most  important  contribution  to  our  political  literature,  and  cannot  fail  to  strengthen  and  elevate 
our  national  life.  — Charles  Sumner.] 

321  Form  of  state 

Godkin,  E.  L. 

Unforeseen  tendencies  of  democracy.  1898.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Essays,  abounding  in  apt  illustration,  on  equality,  nominating  system, 
decline  of  legislatures,  peculiarities  of  American  municipal  government,  Australian  democracy,  etc. 
— New  York  state  library. 

324  Suffrage 

Stanwood,  Edward. 

History  of  the  presidency.  1898.  $2.50. 

Enlarged  and  entirely  rewritten  edition  of  History  oj  presidential  elections,  1896.  Account  of 
nominating  conventions,  relative  strength  of  candidates,  text  of  platforms,  striking  incidents  of 
campaigns  and  tabulated  results  of  elections.  Impartial  and  accurate.  — Literature  oj  American 
history. 

[The  narrative  is  sane,  clear,  and  unprejudiced.  . . . We  know  of  no  book  more  worthy  the  atten- 
tion of  students  of  politics,  as  containing  the  theories  and  disputed  points  on  which  party  lines  have 
been  formed.  — Annals  oj  the  American  Academy. 

It  is  now  more  a history  of  parties  than  a story  of  successive  elections,  and  the  political  student 
will  find  the  book  exceedingly  valuable  in  this  direction.  . . . Mr.  Stanwood  has  compiled  a volume 
which  is  of  inestimable  value  to  the  historical  student,  the  statesman,  and  the  politician,  for  it  is  a 
work  which  may  be  trusted.  — Brooklyn  Eagle.\ 


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327  Foreign  relations 

Foster,  J.  W. 

American  diplomacy  in  the  Orient.  1903.  [8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00,  net. 

[Postage,  20  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Supplement  and  companion  to  his  Century  of  American  diplomacy. 

Reviews  history  of  relations  with  China,  Japan,  Korea,  Hawaii,  Samoa,  with  chapter  on  Spanish 
war  results.  Text  of  treaties  and  protocols  in  appendix.  — New  York  state  library. 

[The  work  combines  in  a most  unusual  degree  the  qualities  of  a valuable  book  of  reference,  of  a 
succinct  history  and  of  a readable  narrative  written  in  a delightful  style.  — Life  (New  York).] 

Century  of  American  diplomacy;  brief  review  of  the  foreign  relations 

of  the  United  States,  1777-1876.  1901.  [8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.50. 

Chapter  on  Monroe  doctrine  covers  Venezuela  dispute.  Written  from  wide  experience  and 
careful  use  of  sources.  — New  York  state  library. 

[There  is  no  portion  of  our  history  which  reflects  greater  credit  on  the  Nation  than  its  diplomatic 
achievements.  It  is  a record  of  the  work  of  able  men,  placed  often  in  positions  of  grave  disad- 
vantage. From  the  earliest  days  there  has  been  a singularly  high  level  of  statesmanship  in  the 
diplomatic  service  of  the  United  States.  — New  York  Tribune .] 

Wilson,  Woodrow. 

Congressional  government;  a study  in  American  politics.  12th  ed. 

1896.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Directed  particularly  to  system  of  government  by  committee,  describing  workings  of  that  system 
in  detail.  Careful  and  thorough.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

330  ECONOMICS 

Gladden,  Washington. 

The  tools  and  the  man;  property  and  industry  under  the  Christian  law. 

1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Applies  moral  tests.  Sustains  some  socialistic  ideas,  but  condemns  advanced  manifestations.  — 
New  York  state  library. 


331  Capital.  Labor  and  wages 

Calkins,  Raymond. 

Substitutes  for  the  saloon;  investigation  made  for  the  Committee  of 
fifty.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.30,  net.  [Postage,  13  cents.] 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Bibliography,  p.  389-91. 

Recognizes  saloon’s  value  as  a social  center  and  discusses  people’s  clubs,  mission,  settlement 
and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  lunch  rooms,  coffee  houses,  indoor  and  outdoor  amusements,  etc.  — New 
York  state  library. 

Gilman,  N.  P. 

A dividend  to  labor;  a study  of  employers’  welfare  institutions.  1899. 
[Crown  8vo.]  $1.75. 

Bibliography,  p.  389-392. 

Both  European  and  American  enterprises  for  benefit  of  employees,  with  discussion  of  principles. 
Pt.  3 supplements  his  earlier  Profit  sharing,  with  results  of  last  decade  of  19th  century.  — New  York 
state  library. 


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Profit  sharing  between  employer  and  employee;  a study  in  the  evolution 
of  the  wage  system.  1896.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.25. 

Bibliography,  p.  446-448. 

Standard  for  both  students  and  profit-sharing  employers. 

Woods,  R.  A.,  editor. 

Americans  in  process;  a settlement  study  by  residents  and  associates 
of  the  South  End  house,  Boston.  1898.  [i2mo.]  $1.50,  net.  [Post- 

age, 14  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Social,  political  and  religious  conditions  among  foreigners  in  north  and  west  ends 
of  Boston.  Supplements  The  city  wilderness.  — New  York  state  library. 

Maps  showing  distribution  of  nationalities,  industrial  character  of  the  population,  etc. 

The  city  wilderness:  a settlement  study,  by  residents  and  associates  of 
the  South  End  house,  Boston.  1898.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Exhaustive  study  of  south  end  of  Boston  and  of  the  physical,  racial,  social,  economic,  criminal 
and  political  conditions  of  its  inhabitants.  — New  York  state  library. 

334  Cooperation 

Gilman,  N.  P. 

Socialism  and  the  American  spirit.  2d  ed.  1896.  [Crown  8vo.] 
$1.50. 

Select  bibliography,  p.  367-370. 

Maintains  that  socialism  and  extreme  forms  of  individualism  are  alike  unamerican,  and  that 
moral  improvement  is  more  needed  than  economic  changes.  — New  York  state  library. 

337  Tariff 

Stanwood,  Edward. 

American  tariff  controversies  in  the  nineteenth  century.  2 v.  1903. 
[Large  crown  8vo.]  $5.00,  net.  [Postage,  37  cents.] 

Political  and  historical.  Author  protectionist,  free  from  partisan  rancor.  — New  York  state 
library. 

[A  work  which  for  comprehensiveness,  for  lucidity,  for  general  accuracy,  for  elevation  of  purpose, 
for  catholicity  of  spirit,  and  for  attractiveness  of  style  in  dealing  with  a usually  banal  theme,  must 
be  accounted  a classic  . . . and  placed  among  the  standard  and  authoritative  reference  books  of 
the  day.  — New  York  Tribune. 

The  most  valuable  contribution  that  has  ever  been  made  to  the  economic  history  of  the  United 
States.  — New  York  Sun.] 

342  Constitutional  law  and  history 

Fiske,  John. 

Civil  government  in  the  United  States,  considered  with  some  refer- 
ence to  its  origins.  New  ed.  1904.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Post- 

paid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Attractively  written  elementary  account,  descriptive  and  historical.  — 
Literature  of  American  history. 

[The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  American  Institute  of  Civics  adopted  a resolution  declaring  that 
“Mr.  Fiske’s  Civil  Government  is  especially  worthy  of  commendation  by  this  body,  by  reason  of 
the  thoroughness  with  which  the  principles  of  constitutional  government  are  traced  to  their  origin 
and  in  their  evolution,  the  distinctness  with  which  the  different  forms  and  methods  of  administration 


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are  treated,  the  clearness  and  precision  of  statement  which  mark  the  work,  and  its  perfect  candor 
and  impartiality.” 

It  is  highly  commended,  not  only  for  use  in  schools,  but  for  careful  study  by  all  who  wish  to 
perform  the  duties  of  American  citizens  intelligently.] 

Lowell,  A.  L. 

Governments  and  parties  in  continental  Europe.  2 v.  1900.  [8vo, 

gilt  top.]  $5.00. 

Studies  relations  between  development  of  parties  and  mechanism  of  government,  sketching  recent 
history  of  France,  Italy,  Germany,  Austro-Hungary^  and  Switzerland.  Appendix  contains  con- 
stitutions in  original  languages.  — New  York  state  library. 

[A  well-conceived,  well-written,  and  extremely  useful  book.  ...  We  strongly  recommend  it  to 
all  who  are  interested  in  political  affairs  or  have  any  concern  with  them.  — Pall  Mall  Gazette 
(London). 

These  volumes  may  be  described  as  truly  indispensable;  they  constitute  an  invaluable  storehouse 
of  facts  nowhere  else  accessible,  so  far  as  the  English  language  is  concerned.  — New  York  Sun.] 

370  Education 

Henderson,  C.  H. 

Education  and  the  larger  life.  1902.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.30,  net.  [Post- 
age, 13  cents.] 

Contents:  Point  of  view;  The  social  purpose;  Source  of  power;  Organic  education;  Cause  and 
effect;  Childhood;  Youth;  Holidays;  At  the  university;  The  experimental  life;  The  agents  of 
the  social  purpose. 

Its  main  value  lies  in  its  sincere  and  inspiring  idealism.  — Joseph  Jastrow. 

[“The  first  non-academic  book  on  the  new  education;  ...  as  different  from  the  usual  writings 
of  teachers  as  possible.”  “A  criticism  of  existing  conditions  and  a clear  indication  of  the  way  to  a 
better  order.”] 

372  ELEMENTARY  EDUCATION 

Kindergarten 

Smith,  N.  A. 

Children  of  the  future.  1898.  [i6mo.]  $1.00. 

The  interpretation  of  the  spiritual  side  of  the  kindergarten.  Not  a technical  book.  — Outlook. 

Wiggin,  Mrs.  K.  D.,  and  Smith,  N.  A. 

Republic  of  childhood.  3 v.  1895-96.  [i6mo.]  $1.00  each. 

Contents:  v.  i,  Froebel’s  gifts;  v.  2,  Froebel’s  occupations;  v.  3,  Kindergarten  principles  and 
practice. 

An  untechnical  setting  forth  of  the  modern  American  adaptation  of  Froebel’s  philosophy.  Dis- 
plays much  wit,  wisdom  and  philosophy.  — Buffalo  public  library. 

[The  three  books  are  educational  tracts  for  the  times;  and  will  not  only  give  a new  impulse  to 
the  growing  interest  in  the  kindergarten,  but  will  aid  not  a little  in  that  widespread,  individual 
education  which  makes  this  country  so  interesting  and  promising  at  this  time.  — Hamilton  W. 
Mabie.] 

374  Self-education 

Munger,  T.  T. 

On  the  threshold.  Revised  ed.  1892.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.00. 

Contents:  Purpose;  Friends  and  companions;  Manners;  Thrift;  Self-reliance  and  courage; 
Health;  Reading;  Amusements;  Purity;  Faith. 


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Paine,  H.  E. 

Girls  and  women,  by  E.  Chester.  1898.  (Riverside  library  for  young 
people.)  [i6mo.]  $0.75. 

(Readable.)  On  health,  education,  self-support,  charity,  hospitality,  emotional  women,  etc. 
The  cogency  of  the  reasoning  is  no  less  remarkable  than  its  persuasiveness.  — Nation. 

[I  have  been  really  delighted  with  the  book.  It  is,  for  one  thing,  so  fresh  with  practical  illustra- 
tion. It  is  a presentation  rather  of  facts  and  pleasant  evidences,  than  of  wise  theories  and  counsels. 
Every  topic  treated  is  searched  to  some  central  principle;  every  chapter  has  its  key-note  of  thought. 
The  author  knows  what  she  has  to  say  on  every  point,  and  she  says  it,  not  only  keenly  and  truly, 
but  with  a very  bright  entertainingness.  — Mrs.  A.  D.  T.  Whitney.] 

380  COMMERCE;  COMMUNICATION 

387  River,  lake  and  ocean  transportation 

Bates,  W.  W. 

American  navigation;  the  political  history  of  its  rise  and  ruin  and  the 
proper  means  for  its  encouragement.  1902.  [8vo.]  $3.50,  net.  [Post- 

age, 22  cents.] 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Deals  almost  exclusively  with  foreign  trade  and  policies 
of  reciprocity,  subsidies,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

390  CUSTOMS 

396  Woman’s  position  and  treatment 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Women  and  the  alphabet;  a series  of  essays.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.] 
$2.00. 

398  FOLKLORE,  PROVERBS,  etc. 

Bergen,  Mrs.  Fannie  (Dickerson),  compiler. 

Current  superstitions,  collected  from  the  oral  tradition  of  English- 
speaking  folk,  with  notes,  and  an  introduction  by  W.  W.  Newell.  1896. 
(American  folk-lore  society  memoirs.)  [8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.50,  net. 
[Postpaid.] 

Harris,  J.  C. 

Uncle  Remus  and  his  friends;  old  plantation  stories,  songs  and  ballads, 
with  sketches  of  negro  character.  1892.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Negro  folklore  gathered  first-hand.  The  “ Creetur”  tales  and  the  manner 
of  their  telling  are  uniquely  funny.  — Leypoldt  & Iles,  List  of  books  for  girls  and  women  and  their 
clubs. 

Holbrook,  Florence. 

Book  of  nature  myths.  1902.  [i2mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  8 cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  School  edition,  45  cents,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Mother  Goose. 

Mother  Goose’s  melodies;  or,  Songs  for  the  nursery,  edited  by  W.  A. 
Wheeler.  1878.  [Illustrated.  4to.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 


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Scudder,  H.  E. 

Book  of  legends  told  over  again.  1899.  [With  frontispiece.  i6mo.] 
$0.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 

yj  Fables  and  folk  stories.  1890.  (Riverside  literature  series.)  $0.40,  net. 
[Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.) 

Scudder,  H.  E.,  compiler. 

Children’s  book;  a collection  of  the  best  and  most  famous  stories  and 
poems  in  the  English  language.  [New  ed.  1903.]  [Illustrated.  Small 
4to.]  $2.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 

[A  new  edition  of  the  best  extant  collection  of  children’s  classics  from  Mother  Goose  up.  . . . Mr. 
Scudder  understood  and  loved  children,  and  no  one  has  ever  lived  better  fitted  than  he  to  edit  such 
a book.  — The  Outlook  (New  York).] 


400  PHILOLOGY 

420  English  language 

White,  R.  G. 

Every-day  English:  sequel  to  Words  and  their  uses.  1880.  [Crown 
8vo.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.) 

428  Errors  of  speech.  Composition 

White,  R.  G. 

Words  and  their  uses,  past  and  present.  33d  ed.,  revised.  1899. 
[Crown  8vo.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.) 


500  SCIENCE 

504  Essays 

Burroughs,  John. 

Birds  and  bees  and  other  studies  in  nature;  with  biographical  sketch 
and  portrait.  1896.  (Riverside  school  library.)  [i6mo.]  $0.60,  net. 

[Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Tried  and  approved  by  children,  to  whom  his  way  of  investing  birds, 
beasts  and  insects  with  human  motives  is  always  pleasing.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

520  ASTRONOMY 
523  Descriptive  astronomy 
Langley,  S.  P. 

The  new  astronomy.  1900.  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Delightful  description  of  the  secrets  wrested  from  the  sky  by  aid  of  the 
spectroscope,  the  sensitive  plate,  and  other  modern  physical  appliances.  — H.  A.  Howe,  in  Popular 
astronomy. 


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[We  doubt  if  there  is  a single  novel  that  leaps  into  the  market  that  will  have  a fraction  of  the 
interest  which  this  book  will  have  for  many  readers.  It  deals  with  the  marvelous,  but  it  is  marvel- 
ously real.  . . . Professor  Langley  has  an  unusual  power  of  presenting  accurate  scientific  truth  in 
a popular  way.  This  book  is  not  written  for  the  specialist,  but  for  the  general  reader.  — Christian 
Register  (Boston). 

Infinitely  the  best  introduction  to  astronomy  an  educated  reader  can  possibly  desire.  — Boston 
Beacon .] 

Lowell,  Percival. 

The  solar  system;  lectures  at  the  Massachusetts  institute  of  technology, 
1902.  1903.  $1.25,  net.  [Postage,  8 cents.] 

Contents:  Our  solar  system;  Mercury;  Mars;  Saturn  and  its  system;  Jupiter  and  his  comets; 
Cosmogony;  Elements  of  the  solar  system. 

525  Earth 

Darwin,  G.  H. 

Tides  and  kindred  phenomena  in  the  solar  system.  1898.  [Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.)  Authorities  at  end  of  each  chapter. 

526  Geodesy  and  surveying 

Gore,  J.  H. 

Geodesy.  1891.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.)  Sketch  of  chief  attempts  to  measure  shape  and  size  of  the 
earth.  — H.  A.  Howe,  in  Popular  astronomy. 

[Contents:  I.  Some  primitive  notions:  the  Hindoo  earth,  the  earth  of  Cosmos,  the  earth  as  a 
floating  egg.  II.  Primitive  determinations  of  the  size  of  the  earth.  III.  The  beginnings  of  accurate 
determinations.  IV.  Some  theories  regarding  the  mathematical  shape  of  the  earth,  and  chapters  on 
work  in  England,  France,  Russia,  Norway,  Sweden,  India,  Prussia.] 

• 

530  PHYSICS 

537  Electricity 

Mendenhall,  T.  C. 

Century  of  electricity.  1890.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  (Riverside  sci- 
ence series.)  $1.25. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.)  Sketches  growth  of  the  science  and  its  principal  applications. 
— New  York  state  library. 

[Contents:  From  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century;  Galvani,  Volta,  the  battery 
and  the  electric  current;  Oersted’s  discovery  and  the  electro -magnet;  Who  invented  the  electro- 
magnetic telegraph;  Multiplex  telegraphy  and  submarine  cables;  Faraday’s  discovery  of  induction 
and  the  development  of  the  dynamo;  The  electric  light;  The  transmission  of  energy  by  means  of 
electricity;  The  electric  motor;  The  telephone;  Secondary  and  thermo-electric  batt'eries;  Conclu- 
sion; Postscript,  1890.] 

580  BOTANY 

581.9  Geographic 

Weed,  C.  M. 

Ten  New  England  blossoms  and  their  insect  visitors.  1895.  [Illus- 
trated. Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 


SCIENCE  17 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.)  Admirably  clear  and  interesting  description  of  methods  of 
fertilization.  Beautiful  illustrations.  — New  York  state  library. 

590  ZOOLOGY 

598  Reptiles.  Birds 

Bailey,  Mrs.  F.  A.  (Merriam). 

Birds  of  village  and  field;  a bird  book  for  beginners.  1898.  [Illus- 
trated. i2mo.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Descriptions,  color  key,  tables  of  migration,  of  winter  birds,  of  aids  to 
observation,  bibliography,  etc.  Illustrations  by  E.  Thompson-Seton,  L.  A.  Fuertes,  and  J.  L. 
Ridgway.  — New  York  state  library. 

Handbook  of  birds  of  the  western  United  States.  1902.  [Illustrated. 
i2mo.]  $3.50,  net.  [Postage,  19  cents.] 

Books  of  reference,  pref.  p.  83-88. 

Comprehensive  manual  complementing  Chapman’s  Handbook  of  birds  of  eastern  North  America. 
Excellent  keys  and  descriptions  of  form,  appearance,  nest,  habits,  and  landscape-setting.  Thirty- 
three  plates  by  Fuertes  and  over  600  cuts  in  text.  — New  York  state  library. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Harriet  (Mann). 

First  book  of  birds;  by  Olive  Thorne  Miller.  1899.  [Illustrated. 
Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.  Readable.)  Talks  about  their  homes,  clothes,  schooling,  food,  how  they 
behave  and  how  to  study  them.  Black  and  white  and  colored  illustrations.  — New  York  state 
library. 

Second  book  of  birds:  bird  families;  by  Olive  Thorne  Miller.  1901. 
[Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Attractive  to  beginners  and  useful  to  advanced  students  because  of  careful 
personal  observations  recorded.  Admirable  colored  plates  by  L.  A.  Fuertes,  and  black  and  white 
illustrations.  — New  York  state  library. 

Torrey,  Bradford. 

Everyday  birds;  elementary  studies.  1901.  [Illustrated  in  color. 
Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

Short  talks  on  the  kinglet,  chickadee,  tanager,  song  sparrow,  hummingbird,  night  hawk,  chimney- 
swift,  etc.  Twelve  colored  plates  after  Audubon.  Without  confusing  technical  details.  Clear 
and  precise.  — Critic. 

599  Mammals 

Burroughs,  John. 

Squirrels  and  other  fur-bearers.  1900.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.] 
$1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Habits  of  chipmunk,  woodchuck,  hare,  muskrat,  skunk,  fox,  weasel, 
mink,  raccoon,  porcupine,  opossum,  wild  mice.  Fifteen  colored  illustrations  after  Audubon.  — 
New  York  state  library. 

[When  such  an  enthusiastic  observer  of  animal  life  as  John  Burroughs  tells  of  squirrels,  chip- 
munks, woodchucks,  rabbits,  weasels,  opossums,  mice,  and  many  other  interesting  four-footed 
friends,  it  is  no  wonder  that  our  children  have  more  intelligent  love  for  them  than  the  former  genera- 
tion. — The  Standard  (Chicago).] 


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Miller,  Mrs.  Harriet  (Mann). 

Four-handed  folk;  by  Olive  Thorne  Miller.  1896.  [Illustrated. 
i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Describes  characteristics  and  manners  of  certain  monkeys,  lemurs,  mar- 
mosets, chimpanzees  and  ocelots  of  the  writer’s  acquaintance.  — New  York  state  library. 


600  USEFUL  ARTS 

603  Dictionaries.  Cyclopedias 

Knight,  E.  H. 

Knight’s  new  mechanical  dictionary.  1884.  [Illustrated.  Royal  8vo.] 
Subs.  $9.00. 

(Reference  book.)  References  to  technical  journals  1876-80.  Illustrated. — Title. 

[It  is  difficult  to  realize  how  colossal  is  the  task  involved  in  the  preparation  of  a work  of  this  de- 
scription. Thousands  of  patents,  American  and  foreign,  have  been  digested,  industrial  processes 
of  every  nature  have  been  examined,  and  the  latest  improvements  therein  noted.  Engineering 
works,  scientific  discoveries,  and  tools  of  every  craft  have  been  studied;  and  finally,  all  this  immense 
collection,  gathered  from  the  whole  field  of  applied  science,  has  been  subjected  to  careful  revision 
and  condensation,  and  by  means  of  ingeniously  contrived  systems  of  indexing,  rendered  invaluable 
for  purposes  of  reference  and  research.  Add  to  this  the  labors  of  artist  and  engraver,  and  there 
is  little  food  for  marvel  that  the  work  has  cost  $100,000;  that  it  treats  of  20,000  subjects;  contains 
7200  engravings;  and  that  its  three  volumes  include  2800  pages.  It  is  more  an  encyclopaedia 
than  a dictionary;  it  is,  in  fact,  a mechanical  and  scientific  library,  carried  up  to  the  latest  dates.  A 
just  estimate  of  the  comprehensive  nature  of  the  work,  and  its  importance  to  inventors,  engineers, 
and  artisans  of  every  class,  and  in  all  libraries,  can  only  be  gained  by  careful  examination  of  the 
volumes  themselves.  — Scientific  American .] 

610  MEDICINE 

Holmes,  0.  W. 

Medical  essays,  1842-82.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.50. 

613  Personal  hygiene 

Billings,  J.  S. 

Physiological  aspects  of  the  liquor  problem;  investigations  made  by 
and  under  direction  of  sub-committee  of  the  Committee  of  fifty  to  inves- 
tigate the  liquor  problem.  2 v.  1903.  [8vo.]  $4.50,  net.  [Postage, 

36  cents.] 

Holds  that  use  of  alcohol  impairs  mental  work,  lessens  physical  power,  does  not  protect  against 
cold  and  fatigue,  and  diminishes  resistance  to  infectious  diseases;  condemns  and  exposes  fallacy 
of  some  misdirected  efforts  to  promote  temperance.  — New  York  state  library. 

[The  series  of  which  this  book  is  the  fourth  volume  has  now  been  completed  by  the  publication, 
in  1905,  of  The  liquor  problem:  A summary  of  investigations  conducted  by  the  committee  of  fifty. 
Of  this  latest  volume  the  Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle  says:  “The  information  which  may  be  gathered 
from  a perusal  of  this  book  is  reliable,  and  some  of  it  is  wonderful.”] 

622  MINING  ENGINEERING 

Greene,  Homer. 

Coal  and  the  coal  mines.  1889.  (Riverside  library  for  young  people.) 
[Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $0.75. 

(Readable.  For  young  readers.) 


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640  DOMESTIC  ECONOMY 

641  Cookery.  Gastronomy 

Whitney,  Mrs.  A.  D.  (Train). 

Just  how;  a key  to  the  cook-books.  1878.  [i6mo.]  $1.00. 

A “little  grammar  of  cuisine,”  giving  details  that  most  cook-books  assume  as  known:  list  of 
utensils,  timetables,  order  and  methods  of  mixing,  measures,  etc.  Contains  tested  recipes  in  suffi- 
cient variety  for  most  tables,  with  explicit  directions  for  preparation.  — New  York  state  library. 


700  FINE  ARTS 

703  Dictionaries.  Cyclopedias 

Waters,  Mrs.  Clara  (Erskine)  Clement. 

Handbook  of  legendary  and  mythological  art.  1881.  [Illustrated. 
i2mo.]  $3.00. 

1,  Symbols  of  art;  2,  Christian  legends  and  stories  which  have  been  illustrated  in  art;  3,  Legends 
of  place;  4,  Ancient  myths  which  have  been  illustrated  in  art;  5,  Catalogue  of  pictures  of  legendary 
and  mythologic  subjects. 

720  ARCHITECTURE 

Van  Brunt,  Henry. 

Greek  lines  and  other  architectural  essays.  1893.  [Illustrated.  Crown 
8vo.]  $1.50. 

Work  of  a practising  architect.  Differs  from  most  critical  writers  in  finding  far  more  that  is 
good  in  modern  architectural  work  than  they.  — Sturgis  & Krehbiel,  Annotated  bibliography 
oj  fine  art. 

History  of  architecture 

Cummings,  C.  A. 

History  of  architecture  in  Italy  to  the  renaissance.  2 v.  1901.  [Illus- 
trated. 8vo,  gilt  top.]  $7.50,  net.  [Postage,  45  cents.] 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.  Readable.)  List  of  authorities  consulted,  v.  1,  pref. 
p.  9-1 1.  Nearly  500  illustrations. 

740  DRAWING.  DECORATION.  DESIGN 

742  Perspective 

Longfellow,  W.  P.  P. 

Applied  perspective,  for  architects  and  painters.  1901.  [Illustrated. 
4to.]  $2.50,  net.  [Postage,  22  cents.] 

750  PAINTING 

755  Religious.  Ecclesiastic 

Hurll,  E.  M. 

Life  of  Our  Lord  in  art;  with  some  account  of  the  artistic  treatment  of 
the  life  of  St.  John  the  Baptist.  1898.  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

Authorities  consulted,  pref.  p.  19-22. 

Published  as  v.  6 of  Mrs.  J ameson’s  Writings  on  art. 


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[This  book  is  intended  to  be  a brief  descriptive  history  of  art  illustrating  the  incidents  in  the 
historic  life  of  Christ.  This  intention  is  admirably  carried  out;  and  the  systematic  plan  of  treat- 
ment, the  admirable  choice  of  pictures,  and  the  concise  method  pursued,  combine  to  make  a work 
of  very  great  interest.  All  the  more  famous  of  the  old  masters  are  represented,  and  most  of  the 
new.  The  full-page  illustrations  are  particularly  fine.  — Church  Union  (New  York).] 

Jameson,  Mrs.  A.  B.  (Murphy). 

Legends  of  the  Madonna;  edited  with  additional  notes  by  E.  M.  Hurll. 
1896.  (Writings  on  art  of  A.  Jameson.)  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$3.00. 

Authorities,  pref.  p.  19-23. 

Abundantly  illustrated  with  designs  from  ancient  and  modern  art.  — Title. 

[No  tasteful  or  artistic  reader  will  take  up  the  book  without  being  held  to  it  as  by  very  fascination; 
and  whether  he  contemplates  the  subject  from  the  standpoint  of  history,  religion,  or  art,  he  will  find 
it  equally  attractive.  There  can  be  no  more  charming  page  in  the  history  of  the  human  mind  than 
that  written  by  Mrs.  Jameson,  wherein  is  recorded  the  daring  effort  of  genius  and  faith  to  gather 
up  all  choice  conceptions  of  love,  beauty,  tenderness,  and  pity,  and  incarnate  them  in  the  form  of 
woman,  — of  woman  idealized  on  earth  as  the  comforter  of  mankind,  and  glorified  in  heaven  as 
the  partner  of  Deity.  — Philadelphia  Inquirer.] 

Legends  of  the  monastic  orders;  edited  with  additional  notes  by  E.  M. 
Hurll.  1901.  (Writings  on  art  of  A.  fameson.)  [Illustrated.  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

Authorities,  pref.  p.  22-26. 

Interpretation  of  works  of  art  in  churches  and  galleries.  — Sargent,  Reading  for  the  young. 

Sacred  and  legendary  art;  edited  with  additional  notes  by  E.  M.  Hurll. 
2 v.  1896.  (Writings  on  art  of  A.  Jameson.)  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $3.00. 

Authorities  referred  to,  pref.  p.  22-26. 

Abundantly  illustrated  with  designs  from  ancient  and  modern  art.  — Title. 

Excellent  for  reference  in  recognizing  a sacred  personage  by  his  attributes  as  given  in  a picture, 
and  as  to  the  proper  way  of  representing  each  personage.  No  better  book  readily  accessible. — 
Sturgis  & Krehbiel,  Annotated  bibliography  of  fine  art. 

[The  work  before  us  relates  to  some  of  the  strangest  passages  in  the  history  of  Christianity.  The 
parts  that  belong  to  angels  and  archangels  and  saints  in  that  history  are  matters  of  the  gravest 
moment.  ...  It  is  with  reference  to  their  connection  with  art  that  Mrs.  Jameson  speaks  in  this 
noble  work.  — Boston  Transcript. 

Mrs.  Jameson  has  done  for  religious  art,  among  her  countrymen  and  ours,  what  Coleridge  and 
Carlyle  did  for  German  literature,  — she  has  brought  it  home,  and  made  it  familiar  to  all.  — Com- 
monwealth (Boston).] 

759  Various  schools  of  painting 

Fromentin,  Eugene. 

Old  masters  of  Belgium  and  Holland;  translated  by  M.  C.  Robbins. 
1882.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  8vo.]  $3.00. 

Admirable  book,  full  of  soundest  criticism.  — Sturgis  & Krehbiel,  Annotated  bibliography  of 
fine  art. 

770  PHOTOGRAPHY 

Black,  Alexander. 

Photography  indoors  and  out.  6th  ed.  1898.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.] 
$1.25. 


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(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.  Popular  treatment.)  Books  for  reference,  p.  238-239. 
Also  in  Riverside  library  for  young  people,  at  75  cents. 

Excellent  manual,  giving  primary  principles  and  practical  directions  for  amateurs.  — New  York 
state  library. 

790  AMUSEMENTS 

792  Theatre.  Pantomime.  Opera 

Clapp,  H.  A. 

Reminiscences  of  a dramatic  critic.  1902.  [Illustrated.  Large  crown 
8 vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.75,  net.  [Postage,  13  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Opinions  of  a qualified  observer  on  prominent  actors  of  the  last  30  years.  — New 
York  state  library. 

793  Indoor  amusements 

Bellamy,  William. 

Century  of  charades.  1894.  [i8mo.]  $1.00. 

For  answers,  see  H.  H.  Ballard’s  Open  sesame. 

One  hundred  bright  and  entertaining  charades,  not  for  acting.  Incomparably  the  best  collection 
extant.  — Leypoldt  & Iles,  List  of  books  for  girls  and  women  and  their  clubs. 

Hale,  L.  P. 

Fagots  for  the  fireside.  New  ed.  1894.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 

More  than  150  entertaining  games  for  evenings  at  home  and  social  parties,  ranging  from  ingenious 
games  of  words  and  proverbs  to  games  of  pure  sport.  — Literary  world. 

797  Boating  and  ball 

Camp,  W.  C.,  and  Deland,  L.  F. 

Football.  1896.  [With  diagrams,  notes,  and  instructions.  Crown 
8vo.]  $2.00. 

One  of  the  most  thorough  and  comprehensive  books  ever  written  on  the  subject.  — D.  A.  Sar- 
gent. 


800  LITERATURE 

804  ESSAYS 

Bates,  Arlo. 

Talks  on  the  study  of  literature.  1897.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

In  essay  style,  full  of  well-sorted  talk,  criticism,  anecdotes  and  advice.  — Nation. 

808  Rhetoric.  Treatises.  Collections 

Bates,  Arlo. 

Talks  on  writing  English.  2 v.  1896-1901.  V.  1 [crown  8vo],  $1.50; 
v.  2 [crown  8vo],  $1.30,  net.  [Postage,  12  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Sensible  and  helpful.  — Buffalo  public  library. 

[Not  only  are  these  “Talks”  of  the  greatest  value  in  the  study  of  English  speaking  and  writing, 
but  they  have  value  as  exceedingly  interesting  essays  in  themselves,  clear  in  expression,  full  of 
enthusiasm,  and  frequently  sparkling  with  wit.  — Advertiser  (Boston). 

The  book  is  one  of  the  few  that  the  literary  student  cannot  afford  to  be  without.  — Boston  Budget .] 


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Longfellow,  H.  W.,  editor. 

Poets  and  poetry  of  Europe;  with  introductions  and  biographical 
notices.  Revised  ed.  1896.  [Royal  8vo,  full  gilt.]  $5.00. 

Grouped  by  language  and  arranged  chronologically. 

[This  volume  is  one  of  the  choicest  and  most  varied  collections  of  European  poetry,  comprising 
selections  from  more  than  four  hundred  authors,  translated  from  the  Anglo-Saxon,  Icelandic, 
Danish,  Swedish,  Dutch,  German,  French,  Italian,  Spanish,  and  Portuguese.] 

Perry,  Bliss. 

Study  of  prose  fiction.  1903.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.25,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Bibliography,  p.  364-371. 

Deals  with  novelist’s  materials  and  his  use  of  them,  plot,  background,  realism,  romanticism, 
the  short  story,  etc.  Suggestions  for  study  in  appendix.  — New  York  state  library. 

[It  is  a series  of  essays  on  the  novel  and  short  story  in  which  there  is  much  virile  writing,  a 
mass  of  valuable  information,  and,  best  of  all,  little  that  is  merely  clever  or  written  for  the  sake  of 
impressing  the  reader  with  the  author’s  superior  position  and  his  massive  authority,  which  are 
seen  quite  readily  enough  by  the  discerning.  — Examiner  (New  York).] 

Stedman,  E.  C. 

Nature  and  elements  of  poetry.  1892.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

He  furnishes  not  petty  measures,  but  great  principles.  It  will  do  much,  attentively  studied, 
to  deepen  one’s  sense  of  that  connection  between  poetry  and  life  which  is  the  finest  result  of  liter- 
ary criticism.  — H.  E.  Scudder. 

809  History  of  literature 

Botta,  Mrs.  A.  C.  (Lynch). 

Handbook  of  universal  literature.  Revised  ed.  1902.  [Crown  8vo.] 
$2.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Birdseye  view  of  world  literatures,:  indicates  most  important  works,  and  the  distinguishing 
characteristics  of  many  authors. 

810  AMERICAN  LITERATURE 

< 

Higginson,  T.  W.,  and  Boynton,  H.  W. 

Reader’s  history  of  American  literature.  1903.  [Illustrated.  Crown 
8vo.]  $1.25,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Based  on  Lowell  institute  lectures,  1903. 

Lists  for  study  and  reading,  p.  311-316. 

Concentrates  attention  on  leading  figures,  ignoring  minor  names  and  details.  Brief,  but  com- 
plete and  consecutive.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

81 1 American  poetry 

Aldrich,  T.  B. 

Poems.  1890.  (Household  edition.)  [Illustrated.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

His  predilection  is  for  the  picturesque;  for  romance  combined  with  simplicity,  purity  and  tender- 
ness of  feeling,  touched  by  fancy  and  occasional  lights  of  humor.  — Library  of  world's  best  literature. 

[I  have  been  reading  some  of  the  poems  this  evening,  and  find  them  rich,  sweet,  and  imaginative 
in  such  a degree  that  I am  sorry  not  to  have  fresher  sympathies  in  order  to  taste  all  the  delight  that 
every  reader  ought  to  draw  from  them.  I was  conscious,  here  and  there,  of  a delicacy  that  I hardly 
dared  to  breathe  upon.  — Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 

In  the  list  of  lyrical  writers  of  America,  the  first  name  is  easily  that  of  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich. 
Among  the  lyrists  of  the  nineteenth  century,  there  is  no  question  about  his  place.  Indeed,  he 


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belongs  more  to  the  world  at  large  than  to  any  particular  spot  in  a hemisphere,  and  though  he  has 
sung  sweetly  of  certain  phases  and  incidents  in  American  life  and  movement,  by  far  the  greater  part 
of  his  work  is  cosmopolitan.  — George  Stewart.] 

Brown,  A.  F. 

Pocketful  of  posies;  illustrated  by  F.  Y.  Cory.  1902.  [Illustrated. 

i2mo.]  $1.50,  net.  [Postage,  9 cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Poetic,  humorous  and  fantastic.  — New  York  state  library. 

Cary,  Alice  and  Phoebe. 

Poetical  works.  1882.  (Household  edition.)  [With  portrait  and 

illustrations.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

[There  is  something  inexpressibly  winning  in  the  thought,  feeling,  and  tone  of  the  verse.  Like 
those  of  her  sister,  Phoebe  Cary’s  poems  are  marked  by  a melody  which  seems  to  be  instinctive. 
They  sing  themselves  without  effort.  — Boston  Transcript.'] 


Crandall,  C.  H.,  editor. 

Representative  sonnets  by  American  poets,  with  an  essay  on  the  sonnet, 
its  nature  and  history,  including  many  notable  sonnets  of  other  litera- 
tures. 1890.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Emerson,  R.  W.  * 

Poems.  1904.  (Centenary  edition.)  [With  portrait.  Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.75. 

In  his  Complete  works  in  class  814;  v.  9. 

[One  can  cultivate  a habit  of  serene  contemplation  in  no  way  better  than  by  frequent  reading  of 
Emerson’s  Poems.  They  are  written  from  the  same  height  as  the  Hymns  of  Orpheus,  the  Vedas, 
or  the  Zoroastrian  Oracles,  and  are  altogether  unmatched  in  modern  times.  — W.  T.  Harris,  U.  S. 
Commissioner  of  Education.] 


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Harte,  Bret. 


Poetical  works.  1902.  (Household  edition.)  [With  portrait  and 
illustrations.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

They  bear  the  test  of  rereading.  — New  York  Tribune. 


Hay,  John. 

Poems.  1899.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Pike  county  ballads;  Wanderlieder;  New  and  old;  Translations. 

[Pike  County  Ballads  captured  the  public  at  once.  Their  originality  of  spirit,  their  freedom  of 
manner,  their  eloquent  suggestiveness  of  a rudely  picturesque  state  of  semi-civilization,  their  \ 'vid 
portrayals  of  a unique  character,  and  their  felicity  of  humorous  expression  are  commanding  merits, 
and  these  virtues  promptly  accomplished  and  have  sufficed  to  maintain  the  conquest  of  the  public 
mind.  . . . The  soul  of  these  poems  is  profoundly  and  entirely  sympathetic  with  man,  and  they  are 
full  of  strength,  cheerfulness,  and  hope.  — New  York  Tribune.] 

Holbrook,  Florence. 

Hiawatha  Primer.  1898.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $0.75. 

(For  young  readers.) 

Holmes,  0.  W. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1895.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 
[Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

The  Riverside  edition  of  the  Poetical  works  in  3 v.  is  uniform  with  the  Prose  works  (class  817), 
and  is  desirable,  but  the  single  volume  will  do  at  first.  — Editor  jor  selection. 


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[As  a poet  he  stands  among  the  first  in  the  country.  He  has  written  some  of  the  most  harmonious, 
some  of  the  most  witty,  some  of  the  most  stirring,  some  of  the  most  tender  verses  of  the  time.  There 
is  an  inexpressible  melody  to  his  lyrics.  — San  Francisco  Bulletin. 

Of  Dr.  Holmes’s  poetry  it  is  needless  to  say  anything  in  praise.  For  nearly  half  a century  he 
has  delighted  his  countrymen  by  his  genius,  and  has  long  been  recognized  as  in  the  first  rank  of 
Americans  whom  the  Muse  has  honored  with  her  favor.  — Boston  Advertiser .] 

Larcom,  Lucy. 

Poetical  works.  1884.  (Household  edition.)  [With  portrait  and  illus- 
trations. Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Biographic  sketch,  pref.  p.  3-6. 

Longfellow,  H.  W. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1893.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

The  complete  Poetical  works , Riverside  edition,  6 v.  $9,  is  most  desirable  also.  — Editor  for 
selection. 

[This  poet  is  the  traveler  of  the  wide  realm  of  thought,  the  world  of  imagination.  He  has  touched 
at  all  the  sunny  Mediterranean  and  Adriatic  ports;  all  the  French  and  Spanish  coasts  are  known 
to  him;  he  brings  wealth  from  the  frozen  Scandinavian  lands  as  rare  as  the  ivory  set  in  the  beryl 
of  the  immemorial  icebergs.  — W.  D.  Howells,  in  North  American  Review. 

Without  comparing  him  with  others,  it  is  enough  if  we  declare  our  conviction  that  he  has  com- 
posed poems  which  will  live  as  long  as  the  language  ih  which  they  are  written.  — J ames  Russell 
Lowell.] 

Lowell,  J.  R. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1893.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

The  Poems,  Riverside  edition,  4 v.  $6,  is  very  desirable  also.  — Editor  for  selection. 

[The  attempt  to  discover  and  define  the  quality  of  Lowell’s  poetic  genius  is  like  an  effort  to  capture 
that  son  of  the  daughter  of  Eblis,  in  the  Eastern  tale,  who  could  transform  himself  at  will  into  a 
lion,  an  eagle,  a waterfall,  or  a bird  of  song.  His  expression  varies  as  his  mood;  and  there  is  no 
poet  from  whose  measures  you  can  less  safely  predict  what  manner  of  poems  they  will  be.  We 
hesitate  to  distinguish  him  as  most  of  a humorist,  lyrist,  idylist,  or  philosopher,  in  his  changeful 
verse. — New  York  Evening  Post. 

The  moving  power  of  Mr.  Lowell’s  poetry,  which  we  take  to  be  its  delicate  apprehension  of  the 
spiritual  essence  in  common  things,  is,  in  some  of  his  poems,  embodied  in  the  fine  organization  of 
a purely  poetic  diction;  in  others,  in  the  strong  broad  language  of  popular  feeling  and  humor;  and 
we  enjoy  each  the  more  for  the  pleasure  of  the  other.  — London  Spectator .] 

Moody,  W.  V. 

Poems.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.25. 

Peabody,  J.  P. 

The  singing  leaves:  a book  of  songs  and  spells.  1903.  [Small  i8mo.] 

$1.00,  net.  [Postage,  5 cents.] 

Sherman,  F.  D. 

Little-folk  lyrics.  1897.  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 

Sill,  E.  R. 

Poems.  1887.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Stedman,  E.  C. 

Poetical  works.  1901.  (Household  edition.)  [With  portrait  and 

illustrations.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 


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[An  extensive  mastery  of  poetical  ideas  and  language  and  great  skill  in  versification  are  guided  by 
a refined  taste  which  is  seldom  found  wanting.  Mr.  Stedman  has  made  his  mark  as  a careful  and 
judicious  critic  of  modern  poetry,  and  when  he  comes  to  write  poetry  himself,  his  critical  faculty 
stands  him  in  good  stead  by  enabling  him  to  make  the  best  of  his  materials.  — Saturday  Review 
(London).] 

Poets  of  America.  1885.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.25. 

Contents:  Early  and  recent  conditions;  Growth  of  the  American  schools;  Bryant;  Whittier; 
Emerson;  Longfellow;  Poe;  Holmes;  Lowell;  Whitman;  Bayard  Taylor;  The  outlook. 

He  has  honesty,  versatile  sympathy,  exact  knowledge,  and  withal  is  a poet.  Its  critical  delinea- 
tions are  clearcut,  its  matter  is  solid,  its  style  strong,  incisive,  suggestive.  — H.  N.  Powers,  in  Dial. 

[No  such  thorough  and  conscientious  study  of  the  tendencies  and  qualities  of  our  poetry  has  been 
attempted  before,  nor  has  any  volume  of  purely  literary  criticism  been  written  in  this  country  upon 
so  broad  and  noble  a plan  and  with  such  ample  power.  . . . Mr.  Stedman’s  work  stands  quite 
alone;  it  has-  had  no  predecessor,  and  it  leaves  room  for  no  rival.  — New  York  Tribune.] 

Stedman,  E.  C,  editor. 

American  anthology,  1787-1900;  selections  illustrating  the  editor’s 
critical  review  of  American  poetry  in  the  19th  century.  1900.  [With 
frontispiece.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

Grouped  chronologically.  Attempts  to  represent  best  work,  not  to  select  the  imperishable.  Fol- 
lowed by  compact  biographic  notices,  alphabetically  arranged,  of  poets  represented.  Indexes  of 
first  lines,  titles,  and  poets.  — New  York  state  library. 

Story,  W.  W. 

Poems.  2 v.  1886.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

Contents:  v.  i,  Parchments  and  portraits:  v.  2,  Monologs  and  lyrics. 

Taylor,  Bayard.  • 

Poetical  works  of  Bayard  Taylor.  1903.  (Household  edition.)  [With 
portrait  and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

[We  claim  a high  place  for  Mr.  Taylor  among  the  poets  of  his  native  land.  In  his  peculiar  walk 
of  song  he  is  without  a rival.  The  most  striking  thing  about  his  poetry  is  its  magnificence  of  dic- 
tion, — a certain  wild,  grand,  stormy  haste  of  expression,  which  somehow  conforms  itself  to  the  rigid 
rules  of  rhetoric.  His  measures,  which  for  the  most  part  are  happily  chosen,  surpass  those  of  any 
other  American  poet  in  sonorousness;  the  sweep  of  his  rhythm  is  superb.  — The  World.] 

Thaxter,  C.  O. 

Poems.  1902.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Thomas,  E.  M. 

In  sunshine  land;  illustrated  by  Katherine  Pyle.  1895.  [Crown  8vo.] 
$1.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 

In  the  young  world.  1896.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 

Lyrics  and  sonnets.  1887.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

_ [The  pretty  book  in  which  Miss  Thomas  has  collected  her  latest  poems  seems  just  suited  for 
pieces  which,  with  hardly  an  exception,  are  distinguished  for  grace,  daintiness,  and  conscientious 
art.  She  is  a member  of  that  large  American  choir  which  is  never  weary  of  singing  of  the  woods 
and  the  waters,  the  birds  and  the  flowers,  the  winds  and  the  seasons;  but  her  voice  has  a clear  ring 
above  the  music  of  the  rest  of  the  band.  ...  In  her  pictures  of  external  nature  there  is  something 
poetically  fanciful  or  spiritually  suggestive.  — New  York  Tribune.] 


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Whittier,  J.  G. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1895.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 
[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

His  Poetical  works,  Riverside  edition,  4 v.  $6,  is  also  desirable.  — Editor  for  selection. 
Preeminently  the  singer  of  the  anti-slavery  crusade,  the  most  representative  of  New  England 
poets,  and  the  poet  of  religious  sympathy  and  hope  and  trust.  — John  W.  Chadwick. 

[They  who  love  their  country  will  thank  him  for  the  verses,  sometimes  pathetic,  sometimes  stir- 
ring, which  helped  to  redeem  that  country  from  a great  sin  and  shame;  they  who  rejoice  in  natural 
beauty  will  thank  him  that  he  has  delightfully  opened  their  eyes  to  the  varied  charms  of  the  rough 
New  England  landscape,  by  highway,  river,  mountain,  and  seashore;  they  who  love  God  will  thank 
him  from  their  hearts  for  the  tenderness  and  simple  trust  with  which  he  has  sung  of  the  infinite 
goodness.  — Charles  W.  Eliot,  President  of  Harvard  University.] 

812  American  drama 

Howells,  W.  D. 

The  sleeping-car,  and  other  farces.  1892.  [i2mo.]  $1.00. 

Contents:  The  parlor-car;  The  sleeping-car;  The  register;  The  elevator. 


813  American  fiction 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey. 

Marjorie  Daw,  and  other  people.  1901.  [With  frontispiece,  i2mo.] 
$1.50. 

Contents:  Marjorie  Daw;  A Ri vermouth  romance;  Quite  so;  A young  desperado;  Miss  Mehet- 
abel’s  son;  A struggle  for  life;  Mademoiselle  Olympe  Zabriski;  Pere  Antoine’s  date-palm. 

Artful  stories,  wit  characterising  not  only  the  style,  but  the  manipulation  of  plot.  Every  tale  is 
logically  worked  out,  complete  in  itself,  and  usually  ends  in  a surprise.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive 
guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

p\s  a writer  of  brief  and  thoroughly  entertaining  stories,  sparkling  with  natural  humor,  and 
always  delightfully  poetic  in  the  descriptive  passages,  he  is  not  surpassed  by  any  other  of  our  authors. 
— Bayard  Taylor,  in  New  York  Tribune. 

We  cannot  say  that  Mr.  Aldrich  stands  at  the  head  of  his  class,  although  he  would  stand  there 
if  there  were  a class,  but  he  stands  alone;  no  other  story-writer  is  in  the  least  like  him. — Boston 
Advertiser .] 

Prudence  Palfrey.  1902.  [With  frontispiece.  i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A nearly  impossible  plot,  worked  out  with  wit  and  plausibility.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive 
guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[They  have  an  exquisite  treat  before  them  who  have  not  yet  read  Prudence  Palfrey.  It  is  Mr. 
Aldrich  decidedly  at  his  best,  — the  plot  well  elaborated  and  sufficiently  exciting,  and  the  story 
unfolded  with  delicacy,  wit,  dramatic  suggestiveness,  and  in  English  altogether  perfect  and  sweet. — 
Christian  Union  (New  York). 

While  in  the  undercurrent  of  thoughtfulness  it  displays,  and  inartistic  finish  and  in.  poetical  grace, 
it  resembles  the  best  work  of  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  it  has  a descriptive  delicacy  which  is 
wholly  the  author’s  own.  — Revue  des  Deux  Mondes .] 

The  Queen  of  Sheba.  1877.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Novelette  connected  with  Marjorie  Daw  by  character  of  Flemming.  Compact  of  humor  and 
sensation.  Scenes,  a New  Hampshire  village  and  Switzerland.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide 
to  the  best  fiction. 

A sea  turn,  and  other  matters.  1902.  [i2mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  A sea  turn;  His  Grace  the  Duke;  Shaw’s  folly;  An  untold  story;  The  case  of  Thomas 
Phipps;  The  white  feather. 


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The  Stillwater  tragedy.  1880.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Various  aspects  of  life  in  a manufacturing  village,  the  passions  and  calamities  of  a strike,  realisti- 
cally depicted.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[The  story  is  in  a somewhat  more  serious  vein  than  is  usual  with  Mr.  Aldrich,  but  it  is  lighted  up 
with  a delicate  humor,  and  the  descriptions  and  characterizations  are  excellent.  Mr.  Aldrich  has 
done  nothing  finer  in  its  way  than  the  opening  chapter,  in  which  the  effects  of  daybreak  in  a New 
England  village  are  described,  and  the  tragedy  itself  is  introduced.  — Boston  Journal. 

Mr.  Aldrich’s  skill  is  shown  at  its  best  in  this  story.  — New  York  Times.] 

\ Story  of  a bad  boy.  47th  ed.  1897.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Other  good  editions  are  illustrated  edition  $2,  and  Riverside  school  library 
edition  70  cents,  net.  — Editor  for  selection. 

Story  of  a mischievous  but  truly  good,  natural  New  England  boy.  Puritanism  is  characterized.  — 
New  York  state  library. 

[A  most  admirable  story  of  school -boy  days,  full  of  boyish  freaks  and  life,  from  the  Fourth  of  July 
celebration  to  the  great  snowfight  at  the  Fort  on  Slatter’s  Hill.  It  is  located  for  the  most  part  in  the 
historic  town  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  which,  disguised  as  “ Rivermouth,”  also  appears  in  other  of  the 
author’s  works. — New  York  Tribune. 

The  best  story  of  a boy  ever  written  in  America,  and  one  of  the  genuinely  witty  and  readable 
books.  — Hartford  Courant. 

One  of  the  most  thoroughly  delightful  of  Mr.  Aldrich’s  books.  — New  York  Evening  Post.] 

Two  bites  at  a cherry,  with  other  tales.  1894.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Two  bites  at  a cherry;  “For  bravery  on  the  field  of  battle;”  The  chevalier  de  Resse- 
guier;  Goliath;  My  cousin  the  colonel;  A Christmas  fantasy,  with  a moral;  Her  dying  words. 

Austin,  Mrs.  Jane  (Goodwin). 

Betty  Alden:  the  first-born  daughter  of  the  Pilgrims.  1891.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

Sequel  to  Standish  of  Standish. 

David  Alden’s  daughter,  and  other  stories  of  colonial  times.  1892. 

[i6mo.]  $1.25. 

1 2 stories,  each  representing  some  noteworthy  character  or  epoch  of  colonial  times.  — Leypoldt 
& Iles,  List  of  books  for  girls  and  women  and  their  clubs. 

Dr.  Le  Baron  and  his  daughters;  a story  of  the  Old  Colony.  1901. 

[i6mo.]  $1.25. 

The  doctor  is  son  of  the  Nameless  nobleman.  Deals  with  later  phases  of  social  life,  embodying 
many  traditions  and  legends. 

A nameless  nobleman.  1881.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Standish  of  Standish,  a story  of  the  Pilgrims.  1889.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Tale  of  the  pilgrims  of  Plymouth  colony  in  17th  century.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to 
the  best  fiction. 

[The  beautiful  directness  and  purity  of  its  style,  the  splendid  picture-events  in  which  great  men 
form  part  and  are  not  made  small,  the  pathos  with  which  that  old  colony  life  is  invested,  ail  unite  to 
demand  from  the  judging  class  of  readers  such  praise  as  few  novels  of  the  year  deserve.  — The 
Nation  (New  York).] 

Barnum,  Mrs  F.  C.  (Baylor).  N 

Juan  and  Juanita.  1888.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  8vo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Mexico  and  Texas  form  background  of  story,  which  sketches  the  Indian 
graphically.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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Bellamy,  Edward. 

Looking  backward,  2000-1887;  with  introduction  by  Sylvester  Baxter. 

Memorial  edition.  1898.  [With  portrait.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

[All  who  are  studying  the  problems  of  the  age,  all  who  believe  in  progress,  all  who  are  free  to 
receive  new  light  upon  the  capacities  and  possibilities  of  the  race,  will  find  in  Mr.  Bellamy’s  exceed- 
ingly clever  book  satisfaction  and  inspiration.  — New  York  Tribune. 

A glowing  prophecy  and  a gospel  of  peace.  — Nation  (New  York). 

One  cannot  deny  the  charms  of  the  author’s  art.  — W.  D.  Howells.] 

Brown,  A.  F. 

The  lonesomest  doll.  1901.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $0.85,  net.  [Post- 
age, 10  cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  The  rescue  of  a doll  confined  in  the  treasure  house  because  too  splendid 
for  her  little  mother  to  play  with.  — New  York  state  library. 

Brown,  Alice. 

King’s  End.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Originally  published  in  LippincoW  s magazine  under  title  April  showers. 

Quiet  story  of  life  in  a New  England  mountain  village,  full  of  insight  into  rustic  character.  — E.  A. 
Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Meadow-grass.  1899.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Number  five;  Farmer  Eli’s  vacation;  After  all;  Told  in  the  poorhouse;  Heman’s 
ma;  Heartsease;  Mis’  Wadleigh’s  guest;  A righteous  bargain;  Joint  owners  in  Spain;  At  Sud- 
leigh  fair;  Bankrupt;  Nancy  Boyd’s  last  sermon;  Strollers  in  Tiverton. 

Short  tales  of  New  England  village  life,  characterized  -by  a joyous,  outdoor  spirit  and  a keen 
delight  in  the  open  air.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Tiverton  tales.  1899.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Dooryards;  A March  wind;  The  mortuary  chest;  Horn-o’-the-moon;  A stolen  festi- 
val; A last  assembling;  The  way  of  peace;  The  experience  of  Hannah  Prime;  Honey  and  myrrh; 
A second  marriage;  The  flatiron  lot;  The  end  of  all  living. 

Stories  and  character  sketches  of  New  England  country  folk.  — New  York  state  library. 

Brown,  H.  D. 

Little  Miss  Phoebe  Gay.  1895.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Story  of  daily  adventures  of  a little  New  England  girl  io  years  old.  — New 
York  state  library. 

Burnham,  Mrs.  C[lara]  Lfouise]. 

Dr.  Latimer;  a story  of  Casco  Bay.  1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Next  door.  1886.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Delineation  of  life  50  years  ago  in  a sequestered  New  England  farmstead.  — E.  A.  Baker, 
Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[As  refreshing  as  a morning  rain  in  a dry  season.  — Nation  (New  York).] 

The  wise  woman.  1895.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Bynner,  E.  L. 

Agnes  Surriage.  1886.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Love  romance  of  colonial  times,  based  on  story  of  Sir  Charles  Henry  Frankland.  — E.  A.  Baker, 
Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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[Agnes  Surriage  ranks  among  the  first  — it  has  been  called  the  very  first  — of  our  stories  founded 
on  history.  — Rev.  E.  E.  Hale.] 

Carryl,  C.  E. 

Davy  and  the  goblin;  or,  What  followed  reading  Alice’s  adventures  in 

Wonderland;  illustrated  by  E.  B.  Bensell.  1885.  [Illustrated.  8vo.] 

$1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Fantastic  adventures  of  a little  boy  who  would  n’t  believe  in  fairies  and 
goblins.  — New  York  state  library. 

Chesnutt,  C.  W. 

The  conjure  woman.  1899.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  goophered  grapevine;  Po’  Sandy;  Mars  Jeems’s  nightmare;  The  conjurer’s 
revenge;  Sis’  Becky’s  pickaninny;  The  gray  wolf’s  ha’nt;  Hot-foot  Hannibal. 

Sketches  of  southern  negro  life.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Chopin,  Mrs.  Kate  (O’Flaherty). 

Bayou  folk.  1894.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Stories  and  characterizations  of  descendants  of  Acadian  exiles  in  Louisiana.  — E.  A.  Baker, 
Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Coffin,  C.  C. 

Daughters  of  the  revolution  and  their  times,  1769-1776.  1895.  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Story  of  outbreak  of  the  revolution.  Describes  state  of  public  feeling, ^ 
Boston  massacre,  tea  party,  battle  of  Lexington,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

Cooke,  Mrs.  Rose  (Terry). 

Happy  Dodd;  or,  “ She  hath  done  what  she  could.”  1878.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

[It  is  assuredly  a work  of  earnest  feeling  and  belief,  and  will  do  good  to  many  readers.  Mrs.  Cooke 
is  a master  in  depicting  certain  types  of  character,  as  well  as  in  her  use  of  the  New  England  up- 
country  lingo.  — George  Parsons  Lathrop.] 

Somebody’s  neighbors.  1881.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Eben  Jackson;  Miss  Lucinda;  Dely’s  cow;  Squire  Paine’s  conversion;  Miss  Beulah’s 
bonnet;  Cal  Culver  and  the  devil;  Amandar;  Polly  Mariner,  tailoress;  Uncle  Josh;  Poll  Jen- 
ning’s  hair;  Freedom  Wheeler’s  controversy  with  Providence;  Mrs.  Flint’s  married  experience. 

Stories  of  New  England  country  life.  — New  York  state  library. 

The  sphinx’s  children,  and  other  people’s.  1886.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  sphinx’s  children;  The  deacon’s  week;  A black  silk;  Jericho  Jim;  Lost  on  a 
railway;  Doctor  Parker’s  Patty;  Doom  and  Dan;  Some  account  of  Thomas  Tucker;  The  forger’s 
bride;  Too  late;  My  Thanksgiving;  How  she  found  out;  Ann  Potter’s  lesson;  Aceldama  Sparks; 
Sallathiel  Bump’s  stocking;  Sally  Parson’s  duty;  A hard  lesson;  ’Liab’s  first  Christmas. 

Steadfast:  the  story  of  a saint  and  a sinner.  1889.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Life  and  trials  of  a young  minister  in  Connecticut  valley  in  early  18th  century.  — E.  A.  Baker, 
Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Craddock,  C.  E.,  pseud. 

In  the  Tennessee  mountains.  10th  ed.  1885.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Eight  studies  of  dwellers  in  the  Great  Smoky  mountains;  reproducing  dialect,  and  depicting 
scenery  and  aspects  of  mountain  weather.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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[There  are  eight  stories  in  this  volume,  and  they  are  all  good  and  full  of  flavor  and  originality. 
The  author  has  caught  the  characteristics  of  the  strange  race  of  mountaineers  whose  ways  he  de- 
scribes almost  as  keenly  as  Mr.  Joel  Chandler  Harris  has  caught  the  idiosyncrasies  of  the  southern 
negro. — New  York  Tribune .] 

Prophet  of  the  Great  Smoky  mountains.  1885.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Story  of  Tennessee  mountains. 

[The  Prophet  of  the  Great  Smoky  Mountains  is  a stirring  piece  of  workmanship  that  will  live  long 
in  the  hearts  and  memories  of  the  West  and  South.  It  contains  so  many  touching  bits  of  pathos, 
so  many  poetic  descriptions,  and  has  such  a firm  grasp  of  the  dialect  of  the  Tennessee  mountains, 
that  the  reader  cannot  fail  to  be  entertained  by  the  narrative.  . . . Too  much  cannot  be  said  in 
praise  of  Miss  Murfree’s  descriptive  work.  — St.  Louis  Republican .] 

Where  the  battle  was  fought.  1884.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

[When  she  who  signs  Charles  Egbert  Craddock  gives  us  a book,  it  is  sure  to  have  certain  traits  of 
mastery  beyond  that  of  any  other  woman  now  writing.  Her  power  of  realizing  the  rough,  native 
types  with  which  she  deals  is  known  to  all  readers,  as  well  as  that  subtlety  by  which  she  discerns 
the  core  of  sweetness  and  goodness  that  is  in  them.  They  have  so  much  in  common,  however,  that 
every  one  may  not  recognize  the  skill  with  which  she  differentiates  the  types  into  characters,  with 
the  same  mixture  of  motives  which  we  find  in  the  world.  — W.  D.  Howells.] 

Young  mountaineers;  illustrated  by  Malcolm  Fraser.  1898.  [i6mo.] 

$1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Contents:  The  mystery  of  Old  Daddy’s  window;  ’Way  down  in  Poor 
Valley;  A mountain  storm;  Borrowing  a hammer;  Conscripts’  Hollow;  A warning;  Among  the 
cliffs;  In  the  “chinking;  ” On  a higher  level;  Christmas  day  on  Old  Windy  mountain. 

Stories  of  boy  life  and  adventure  in  the  Tennessee  mountains.  — New  York  state  library. 

Cummins,  M.  S. 

The  lamplighter.  New  ed.  1902.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Deland,  Mrs.  Margaret. 

Mr.  Tommy  Dove,  and  other  stories.  1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.00. 

Contents:  Mr.  Tommy  Dove;  The  face  on  the  wall;  Elizabeth;  At  whose  door?  A fourth- 
class  appointment. 

Sidney.  1890.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Deming,  Philander. 

Adirondack  stories.  1902.  [i8mo.]  $0.75. 

Contents:  Lost;  Lida  Ann;  John’s  trial;  Joe  Baldwin;  Willie;  Benjamin  Jacques;  Ike’s  wife; 
An  Adirondack  neighborhood. 

Quiet,  realistic  stories  picturing  life  in  the  wild  Adirondack  region  of  northern  New  York.  — 
E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Foote,  Mrs.  Mary  (Hallock). 

Coeur  d’Alene.  1894.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Rocky  mountain  love  story  describing  the  Coeur  d’Alene  mine  riots  of  1892.  — New  York  state 
library. 

John  Bodewin’s  testimony.  1886.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Story  of  mining  interests  and  civil  engineering  in  western  Arkansas.  — New  Y ork  state  library. 

The  Led-Horse  claim.  1883.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

A California  Romeo  and  Juliet , with  a happy  ending.  Feud  between  two  mining  superintendents; 
the  wild  and  perilous  life  of  the  region  gives  a specific  character  to  the  story.  — E.  A.  Baker, 
Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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[We  respect  Mrs.  Foote  and  her  art,  because  she  has  not  tortured  us  with  imaginary  and  subtle 
difficulties  in  the  case,  but  has  told  an  entirely  probable  story  as  nature  would  have  told  it.  — Atlantic 
Monthly.] 

Hale,  L.  P. 

Peterkin  papers.  1891.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  8vo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Twenty-two  absurdly  funny  stories  of  the  unsuccessful  efforts  of  the 
Peterkin  family  to  become  wise.  — Hardy,  G.  E.,  Five  hundred  books  for  the  young. 

[The  very  name  of  this  collection  of  absurdly  laughable  sketches  will  raise  a smile  on  the  face  of 
the  most  lugubrious  reader.  Miss  Hale’s  humor  is  irresistible.  Her  accounts  of  the  doings  and 
experiences  of  the  Peterkins  remind  one  of  the  stories  of  the  inhabitant  of  ancient  Gotham,  who 
tried  to  drown  eels,  and  to  catch  birds  by  surrounding  their  nests.  — Boston  Transcript .] 

Hardy,  A.  S. 

But  yet  a woman.  1883.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Study  of  the  inner  springs  of  human  nature  in  the  light  of  high  ideals  of  conduct;  scene,  an  old 
French  town.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Passe  Rose.  1890.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Poetical  romance  of  the  Franks  and  Saxons  of  Charlemagne’s  times.  Passe  Rose  is  a lovely 
Provencal  waif.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[It  were  an  easy  task  for  any  one  to  copy  names  and  dates  and  descriptions,  but  to  call  back  the 
old  heroes  and  heroines  of  that  most  romantic  time  and  make  them  live  again,  — this  is  the  loving 
task  of  a master  hand.  Mr.  Hardy  has  studied  carefully  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  eighth 
century;  but  others  might  do  that  and  yet  handle  them  as  a pigmy  would  struggle  with  the  armor 
of  a giant.  It  is  in  his  power  and  pleasure  to  wield  lightly  and  gracefully  every  instrument  he 
touches.  — Literary  World  (Boston).] 

The  wind  of  destiny.  1886.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Story  of  subtle  psychologic  quality,  its  scenery  and  characters  partly  French  and  partly  American. 
— Library  of  the  world’s  best  literature. 

Harris,  J.  C. 

Balaam  and  his  master,  and  other  sketches  and  stories.  1891.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

Contents:  Balaam  and  his  master;  A conscript’s  Christmas;  Ananias;  Where’s  Duncan?  Mom 
Bi;  The  old  Bascom  place. 

The  melancholy  and  pathetic  side  of  the  negro  character  predominates  in  these  stories,  which, 
however,  present  a great  variety  of  types.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Little  Mr.  Thimblefinger  and  his  queer  country;  what  the  children  saw 
and  heard  there;  illustrated  by  Oliver  Herford.  1894.  [Sq.  8vo.] 
$2.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Fantastic  tale  interweaving  negro  animal  stories  and  other  Georgia  folk- 
lore with  modern  inventions.  — New  York  state  library. 

Mr.  Rabbit  at  home;  sequel  to  Little  Mr.  Thimblefinger  and  his  queer 
country;  illustrated  by  Oliver  Herford.  1895.  [Sq.  8vo.]  $2.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Animal  stories  told  to  children. 

Harte,  Bret. 

Colonel  Starbottle’s  client,  and  some  other  people.  1892.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 


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Contents:  Col.  Starbottle’s  client;  The  postmistress  of  Laurel  Run;  A night  at  “Hays;”  John- 
son’s “old  woman;”  The  new  assistant  at  Pine  Clearing  school;  In  a pioneer  restaurant;  A trea- 
sure of  the  galleon;  Out  of  a pioneer’s  trunk;  The  ghosts  of  Stukeley  castle. 

Eight  stories  of  the  south  and  west  and  one  of  England.  — New  York  state  library. 

[No  one  is  likely  to  dispute  Bret  Harte’s  title  to  California,  which  he  preempted  from  a literary 
point  of  view  at  an  early  period.  — Philadelphia  Ledger .] 

Condensed  novels.  2 v.  1809-1902.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Short  parodies  on  the  writings  of  Cooper,  Charlotte  Bronte,  Marryat,  Dickens,  Reade,  Dumas, 
Michelet,  Victor  Hugo  and  others.  — New  York  state  library. 

Gabriel  Conroy;  Bohemian  papers;  Stories  of  and  for  the  young.  2 v. 
1896.  (Riverside  edition.)  [i2mo.]  $1.50  each. 

Scene,  California  during  the  forties  and  fifties.  Vivid  pictures  of  life  at  a mining  camp.  — Library 
of  world's  best  literature. 

Luck  of  Roaring  Camp,  and  other  tales,  with  Condensed  novels,  Spanish 
and  American  legends,  and  earlier  papers;  introduction  by  the  author. 
1902.  (Riverside  edition.)  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A new  genre  of  short  story.  The  “Luck”  is  a babe  whose  coming  among  the  miners  in  the 
Californian  settlement  makes  their  lives  better  and  more  humane.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide 
to  the  best  fiction. 

[His  Californian  tales,  beyond  their  interest  as  works  of  fiction,  have  a truth,  which,  if  not  exactly 
literal,  is  better  than  much  that  passes  for  historical  truth,  and  whereby  they  will  one  day  be  valu- 
able material  for  history.  They  give  us  a picture  — everywhere  so  striking  and  consistent,  that 
even  without  confirmation,  which,  however,  is  not  wanting,  it  must  be  accepted  as  faithful  — of  a 
strange,  transitory  phase  of  civilization  which  already  belongs  to  the  past.  . . . Mr.  Bret  Harte  is 
a story-teller  and  a poet  of  true  genius.  — Saturday  Review  (London).] 

Mrs.  Skaggs’s  husbands,  and  other  sketches.  1900.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Mrs.  Skaggs’s  husbands;  How  Santa  Claus  came  to  Simpson’s  Bar;  Princess  Bob 
and  her  friends;  The  Iliad  of  Sandy  Bar;  Mr.  Thompson’s  prodigal;  Romance  of  Madrono  Hol- 
low; Poet  of  Sierra  Flat;  The  Christmas  gift  that  came  to  Rupert;  Urban  sketches;  Legends  and 
tales. 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel. 

Dr.  Grimshawe’s  secret;  edited  with  preface  and  notes  by  Julian  Haw- 
thorne. 1889.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Illustrated.  Crown  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $2.00. 

The  Dolliver  romance,  Fanshawe,  and  Septimius  Felton,  with  an  appen- 
dix containing  The  ancestral  footstep.  1884.  (Riverside  edition.) 
[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Posthumous  and  unfinished  romances,  mostly  dealing  with  psychologic  and  ethical  themes.  — 
E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[The  Dolliver  Romance , unhappily,  is  only  a beautiful  fragment;  but  it  contains,  even  in  its 
incompleteness,  a promise  of  the  artistic  perfection  to  which  its  author  would  doubtless  have  brought 
it,  had  he  lived.  — Buffalo  Courier. 

As  one  reads  it  ( Fanshawe ) now  by  the  light  thrown  back  upon  it  from  the  fame  of  the  author 
fifty  years  after  he  wrote  it,  the  little  book  gains  an  interest  and  value  that  very  few  of  its  contem- 
porary volumes  of  American  origin  can  claim.  — Springfield  Republican. 

Septimius  Felton  is  full  of  Hawthorne’s  best  and  most  characteristic  writing.  — London  Athe- 
nceum.] 

House  of  the  seven  gables,  The  snow-image,  and  other  Twice-told  tales. 
1883.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 


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Chiefly  imaginative  portraiture  of  the  last  generations  of  a decaying  family,  a series  of  quaint, 
fanciful,  and  grotesque  figures,  rich  in  eccentricity  and  the  subtler  essences  of  character.  — E.  A. 
Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[In  point  of  style  they  ( The  Snow-Image,  and  Other  Twice-told  Tales)  are,  like  all  his  writings, 
masterpieces  of  pure  and  felicitous  expression,  and,  in  an  age  when  the  language  is  disfigured  by 
so  many  affectations,  they  deserve  to  be  read  for  this  merit  alone  by  all  the  lovers  of  “English 
undefiled.”  — Providence  Press.) 

''/The  marble  faun;  or,  The  romance  of  Monte  Beni.  1888.  (Riverside 
edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Scene  laid  in  Rome.  The  development  of  a soul  through  the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil. 

Art  and  nature  in  Italy,  the  architecture,  paintings,  and  sculpture  (especially  American  sculpture) 
of  Rome,  and  Catholic  ceremonial  are  the  subject  of  exhaustive  passages  of  description.  — E.  A. 
Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Published  in  England  under  title  Transformation. 

[Never  before  has  Italy  inspired  a romance  writer  with  a work  so  composite  in  its  elements,  so 
perfect  in  their  organic  harmony.  — London  Spectator. 

Singularly  eloquent  volumes,  teeming  with  the  most  fanciful  creations  of  one  of  the  most  fanciful 
and  creative  of  imaginations.  — London  Leader .] 

J Mosses  from  an  old  manse.  1883.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Unlike  any  other  stories  ever  written  anywhere  else  by  anybody  else.  Strangely  interesting, 
novel,  varied,  and  ingenious,  full  of  fancy,  and  often  with  a hidden  allegory.  — Brander  Mat- 
thews. 

[In  ease,  grace,  delicate  sharpness  of  satire,  in  a felicity  of  touch  which  often  surpasses  the  felicity 
of  Addison,  in  a subtlety  of  insight  which  often  reaches  farther  than  the  insight  of  Steele,  the  humor 
of  Hawthorne  presents  traits  so  fine  as  to  be  almost  too  excellent  for  popularity,  as  to  every  one  who 
has  attempted  their  criticism  they  are  too  refined  for  statement.  — E.  P.  Whipple.] 

The  scarlet  letter  and  The  Blithedale  romance.  1898.  (Riverside 
edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Scarlet  letter:  A strong  story  of  the  workings  of  conscience  embodied  in  a romance  of  puritan 
Boston. 

Blithedale  romance:  Largely  idealized  reminiscences  of  the  “Transcendental  picnic,”  the  com- 
munistic settlement  at  Brook  Farm.  In  the  main,  a light  and  joyous  tale.  Margaret  Fuller  said 
to  be  the  original  of  Zenobia,  and  Hawthorne  of  Coverdale.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to 
the  best  fiction. 

[The  Scarlet  Letter  is,  we  hardly  need  say,  the  first  production  from  his  pen  which  bore  his  name 
to  the  great  body  of  his  countrymen,  and  stamped  him  as  indubitably  the  greatest  of  all  American 
writers  of  prose.  Since  it  first  saw  the  light  many  reputations  have  been  won  and  lost,  but  the 
reputation  of  Hawthorne  has  remained  like  a fixed  star  in  the  firmament  of  letters.  — New  York 
Mail  and  Express. 

The  masterpiece  of  the  greatest  of  American  novelists.  — Chicago  Tribune .] 


Tales,  sketches,  and  other  papers;  with  a biographical  sketch  by  G.  P. 
Lathrop.  1883.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 


Includes  tales  of  early  period,  Biographical  stories  and  sketches, 
Lathrop ’s  sketch  of  Hawthorne. 


v/ 


Twice-told  tales. 
$2.00. 


1883.  (Riverside  edition.) 


Life  of  Franklin  Pierce,  and 

[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 


Imaginative  renderings  of  traditions  from  pre-Revolutionary  times,  several  involving  supernatural 
incident.  The  ethical  purport  is  more  or  less  transparent  throughout.  Then  there  are  compact 
pictures  of  New  England  life,  and  contemplative  sketches,  full  of  his  calm,  earnest  philosophy.  — 
E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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LITERATURE 


[Everything  about  it  has  the  freshness  of  morning  and  of  May.  These  flowers  and  green  leaves 
of  poetry  have  not  the  dust  of  the  highway  upon  them.  They  have  been  gathered  fresh  from  the 
secret  places  of  a peaceful  and  gentle  heart.  . . . The  book,  though  in  prose,  is,  nevertheless,  written 
bv  a poet.  He  looks  upon  all  things  in  the  spirit  of  love,  and  with  lively  sympathies;  for,  to  him, 
external  form  is  but  the  representation  of  an  internal  being,  all  things  having  a life,  an  end  and 
aim.  — Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow.] 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Studies  in  romance.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Contents:  Malbone:  an  Oldport  romance;  The  monarch  of  dreams;  Oldport  days. 

Holmes,  O.  W. 

Elsie  Venner.  1892.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 

$1.50. 

Depicts  a human  nature  developing  itself  in  conflict  with  characteristics  impressed  on  it  during 
the  prenatal  period.  — Preface. 

[It  is  distinguished  alike  by  originality  of  conception  and  brilliancy  of  execution,  and  is,  in  fact, 
the  most  striking  and  fascinating  book  that  we  have  met  with  for  some  time.  The  leading  idea  of 
the  story  is,  as  far  as  we  know,  entirely  new.  — London  Spectator .] 

Guardian  angel.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 

$1.50. 

Psychologic  study  of  inherited  aptitudes  and  tendencies,  particularly  of  a girl  in  whose  blood  a 
taint  of  Indian  savagery  is  at  war  with  her  higher  nature.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the 
best  fiction. 

[This  tale  forms  a natural  sequence  to  Elsie  Venner , but  comes  more  nearly  within  the  range  of 
natural  experience,  and  deals  with  the  successive  development  of  inherited  bodily  aspects  and 
habitudes.  — Author's  Preface. 

It  is  full  of  wit  and  wisdom  and  interest,  and,  indeed,  of  all  those  good  qualities  which  most  novels 
are  without.  — London  Illustrated  Times.] 

A mortal  antipathy.  1892.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt 

top.]  $1.50. 

[A  Mortal  Antipathy,  if  not  very  impressive  as  a novel  from  too  lingering  a plot,  is  crowded  to  the 
edges  with  character  and  incident,  with  satire  and  suggestion.  — Springfield  Republican.] 

Howard,  B.  W. 

Aunt  Serena.  1881.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Guenn;  a wave  on  the  Breton  coast.  1884.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.] 

$1.50. 

Pathetic  picture  of  the  hopeless  love  of  a Breton  peasant  maiden  for  a painter.  — C.  F.  Richard- 
son, American  literature. 

One  summer.  1900.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Love  story  brightly  told.  Scene,  a New  England  village.  — New  York  state  library. 

Howe,  E.  W. 

Story  of  a country  town.  1889.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

[It  is  a story  of  genuine  power,  and  as  an  effort  to  portray  a phase  of  American  life  which  necessa- 
rily must  soon  pass  away  forever,  it  ought  to  receive  a generous  recognition  from  all  who  care  for  real 
books,  and  not  for  books  which  are  fainter  echoes  of  other  books.  — Christian  Union  (New  York).] 

Howells,  W.  D. 

A chance  acquaintance.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A highly  educated  gentleman  from  Boston  attaches  himself  to  a party  of  tourists  from  the  West 


LITERATURE 


35 


and  wins  the  heart  of  a romantic  and  unsophisticated  girl.  Their  mutual  attraction  and  incom- 
patibility are  subtly  exhibited.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

A foregone  conclusion.  1902.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

An  international  novel,  the  canals  and  palaces  of  Venice  being  the  scene  of  the  love  drama.  — 
E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Indian  summer.  1885.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A love  drama,  of  which  the  persons  are  Americans  in  Florence;  worked  out  entirely  by  means  of 
conversation.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


Lady  of  the  Aroostook.  1879.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A young  New  England  girl’s  voyage  in  a sailing  vessel  from  Boston  to  Trieste  and  its  outcome.  — 
New  York  state  library. 


The  minister’s  charge;  or,  The  apprenticeship  of  Lemuel  Barker. 
1887.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A modern  instance.  26th  ed.  1881.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 


Called  his  representative  novel;  faithful,  though  wholly  external,  delineation  of  the  whole  life  of 
a village  in  Maine.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[There  has  been  no  more  rigidly  artistic  writing  done  in  America  since  Hawthorne’s  time.  — The 
Critic  (New  York). 

Since  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  there  has  appeared  no  American  work  of  fiction  of  greater  power  to 
affect  public  sentiment.  — Century  Magazine .] 


Y 


Rise  of  Silas  Lapham.  1885.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 


History  of  an  ignorant  and  coarse-grained,  but  manly  character,  who  is  first  brought  into  humor- 
ous contrast  with  the  refined  society  of  the  city,  and  then  is  shown  making  head  against  commercial 
disasters,  which  chasten  without  weakening  his  character.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the 
best  fiction. 

[The  high-water  mark  of  Mr.  Howells’s  great  and  unique  photographic  genius.  A marvelously 
minute  and  realistic  picture  of  life  in  Boston,  — a miniature  of  high  artistic  value,  delicately  faithful. 
— Pall  Mall  Gazette .] 

# 

Their  wedding  journey,  with  an  additional  chapter  on  Niagara  revisited. 
1899.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 


Experiences,  impressions,  and  talk  of  a pair  of  Bostonians  on  their  honeymoon.  Few  incidents, 
much  moralizing  and  humor,  and  a good  deal  of  word  painting  of  New  York,  Niagara,  etc.  — E.  A. 
Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[With  just  enough  of  story  and  dialogue  to  give  it  the  interest  of  a novel,  it  is  also  one  of  the 
most  charming  books  of  travel  that  we  have  ever  seen.  — Christian  Register  (Boston).] 

James,  Henry. 

The  American.  1877.  [i2mo.]  $2.00. 

A self-made  American  goes  to  Europe  to  enjoy  his  “pile,”  and  becomes  engaged  to  a French 
widow  of  noble  family.  The  pride  and  meanness  of  the  old  nobility  are  sharply  contrasted  with 
the  American’s  pluck  and  good  nature.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Portrait  of  a lady.  18th  ed.  1897.  [i2mo.]  $2.00. 

Story  of  an  Albany  girl’s  life  in  Europe;  elaborate  character  study.  — New  York  state  library. 

[A  very  clever  book,  and  a book  of  very  great  interest.  . . . We  do  not  know  a living  English 
novelist  who  could  have  written  it.  — Pall  Mall  Gazette .] 


Roderick  Hudson.  Revised  ed.  1882.  [i2mo.]  $2.00. 

Roderick  is  a resume  in  little  of  the  strength  and  weakness  of  genius,  an  example  of  the  artistic 
temperament.  He  is  a young  American  sculptor  taken  to  Italy  by  one  of  Mr.  James’s  rich  virtuosi. 
— E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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LITERATURE 


Jewett,  S.  O. 

Betty  Leicester;  a story  for  girls.  1890.  [i8mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Young  girl’s  summer  in  a New  England  country  town  after  a life  of  travel 
abroad.  — New  York  state  library. 

Betty  Leicester’s  Christmas.  1899.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Sequel  to  Betty  Leicester. 

A 15-year-old  New  England  girl,  living  with  her  father  in  London,  spends  a delightful  Christ- 
mas at  Danesly  Castle.  First  published  in  St.  Nicholas.  — New  York  state  library. 

A country  doctor.  1884.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Simple  story  of  quiet  and  beautiful  life  in  rural  New  England.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide 
to  the  best  fiction. 

[It  is  a rare  gift  to  be  able  to  use  the  materials  which  lie  close  at  hand,  — at  everybody’s  hand. 
To  do  this  requires  tact  and  skill,  as  well  as  an  observing  eye  and  nicety  of  discrimination,  and 
moreover,  such  breadth  of  sympathies,  such  a “fellow  feeling”  for  one’s  kind,  that  the  events  of  the 
most  common  matter-of-fact  life  seem  worth  the  telling;  and  all  this  Miss  Jewett  has.  She  is  not 
only  one  of  the  sweetest  and  most  charming  of  writers,  but  her  pages  have  all  along  suggestions 
helpful  towards  a kindlier  and  higher  way  of  living.  — Literary  World  (Boston).] 

Country  of  the  pointed  firs.  1896.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Studies  of  life  and  character  in  a Maine  seacoast  village.  — New  York  state  library. 

Deephaven.  1900.  [i8mo.]  $1.25. 

Two  young  girls’  summer  in  an  old  New  England  seaport. 

[We  could  not  express  too  strongly  the  sense  of  conscientious  fidelity  which  the  art  of  the  book 
gives,  while  over  the  whole  is  cast  a light  of  the  sweetest  and  gentlest  humor,  and  of  a sympathy  as 
tender  as  it  is  intelligent.  — W.  D.  Howells,  in  Atlantic  Monthly .] 

Old  friends  and  new.  1879.  [i8mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  A lost  lover;  A sorrowful  guest;  A late  supper;  Mr.  Bruce;  Miss  Sydney’s  flowers; 
Lady  Ferry;  A bit  of  shore  life. 

The  queen’s  twin,  and  other  stories.  1899.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  queen’s  twin;  A Dunnet  shepherdess;  Where’s  Nora  ? Bold  words  at  the  bridge; 
Martha’s  lady;  The  coon  dog;  Aunt  Cynthy  Dallett;  The  night  before  Thanksgiving. 

Stories  of  rural  life  among  the  homely  farmer  and  fisher  folk  of  New  England,  with  two  bright, 
lively  Irish  sketches.  — New  York  state  library. 

Johnston,  Mary. 

Audrey.  1902.  [Illustrated  in  color.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Virginia  romance;  historical  setting;  early  18th  century.  — New  York  state  library. 

Prisoners  of  hope;  a tale  of  colonial  Virginia.  1898.  [With  frontis- 
piece. Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Published  in  England  under  title  The  old  dominion. 

To  have  and  to  hold.  1900.  [Illustrated.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Published  in  England  under  title  By  order  of  the  company. 

Virginia  romance  of  reign  of  James  I.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Lee,  Mrs.  M.  C.  (Jenkins). 

In  the  cheering-up  business.  1891.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

A Quaker  girl  of  Nantucket.  1889.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 


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London,  Jack. 


Son  of  the  wolf;  tales  of  the  far  North.  1900.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  The  white  silence;  The  son  of  the  wolf;  The  men  of  Forty-Mile;  In  a far  country; 
To  the  man  on  trail;  the  priestly  prerogative;  The  wisdom  of  the  trail;  The  wife  of  a king;  An 
Odyssey  of  the  North. 

Grim,  powerful  stories  of  white  men  in  Alaska.  — New  York  state  library. 

Longfellow,  H.  W. 


Hyperion,  a romance.  Revised  ed.  1869.  [i6mo.]  $0.50. 

The  musings,  love-making,  and  dreams  of  a young  poet,  a pilgrim  in  Germany  and  Switzerland.  — 
E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[In  tender  and  profound  feeling  and  in  brilliancy  of  imagery,  the  work  will  bear  comparison  with 
the  best  productions  of  romantic  fiction  which  English  literature  can  boast.  — C.  C.  Felton.] 


Kavanagh,  and  other  pieces.  1896.  [i6mo.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Kavanagh;  Driftwood;  Ancient  French  romances;  Frithiof’s  saga;  Twice-told  tales; 
The  great  metropolis;  Anglo-Saxon  literature;  Paris  in  the  17th  century;  Table-talk. 


Lynde,  Francis. 


The  helpers.  1901.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Scenes,  Denver  and  mining  regions.  — New  York  state  library. 


Parker,  Sir  Gilbert. 

The  battle  of  the  strong;  a romance  of  two  kingdoms.  1888.  [Illus- 
trated. i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Opens  with  battle  of  Jersey  and  is  continued  into  the  great  war  between  England  and  France 
at  close  of  18th  century.  Scene  chiefly  Jersey,  sometimes  Brittany.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive 
guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Phelps,  E.  S. 

Doctor  Zay.  1882.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Story  of  a woman  physician  in  an  obscure  New  England  village.  — Leypoldt  & Iles,  List  of 
books  for  girls  and  women  and  their  clubs. 

Fourteen  to  one.  1891.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Fourteen  to  one;  The  bell  of  St.  Basil’s;  Shut  in;  Jack,  the  fisherman;  The  madonna 
of  the  tubs;  A brave  deed;  The  sacrifice  of  Antigone;  Sweet  home;  Too  late;  The  Reverend 
Malachi  Matthew;  His  relict;  Mary  Elizabeth;  Annie  Laurie;  The  law  and  the  gospel. 

Gates  ajar.  1896.  [i6mo.]  $1.50. 

Imaginative  glimpses  into  the  celestial  paradise,  where  she  imagines  the  interests  and  occupations 
of  terrestrial  existence  will  be  carried  on.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

A singular  life.  1895.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Scudder,  H.  E. 

Bodleys  telling  stories.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  8vo.]  1878.  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  About  historic  men  and  events.  — Sargent,  Reading  for  the  young. 

Doings  of  the  Bodley  family  in  town  and  country.  1903.  [Illustrated. 

Sq.  8vo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Stories,  poems  and  anecdotes  woven  into  a story.  — Carnegie  Library 
(Pittsburg). 


38  LITERATURE 

Several  more  Bodley  books  exist  which  may  be  added  in  libraries  where  these  prove  successful.  — 
Editor  for  selection. 

Smith,  F.  H. 

Caleb  West,  master  diver.  1900.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Characters  and  action  center  about  the  building  of  a lighthouse  on  the  Connecticut  coast.  — New 
York  state  library. 

Colonel  Carter  of  Cartersville,  illustrated  by  E.  W.  Kemble  and  the 
author.  1892.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Describes,  with  humorous  and  loving  touch,  an  unreconstructed  Virginia  gentleman  and  the 
friends  he  endeared  himself  to.  — Nation. 

Tom  Grogan.  1900.  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Tom  Grogan  is  an  Irish  woman  and  a contractor.  Her  troubles  with  her  workmen  and  her 
method  of  averting  a strike  described  from  capitalist’s  point  of  view.  — Massachusetts  literary  club. 

Smith,  N.  A. 

Three  little  Marys.  1902.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $0.85,  net.  [Post- 
age, 8 cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Scotch  Mairi,  English  Molly  and  Irish  Maureen  Bawn  are  the  heroines 
of  three  pretty  stories.  — New  York  state  library. 

Stowe,  Mrs.  H.  E.  (Beecher). 

Little  Pussy  Willow;  also,  The  minister’s  watermelons.  1899.  [Illus- 
trated. Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Happy,  useful  life  of  a country  girl  who  received  from  a fairy  the  gift  of 
seeing  the  bright  side  of  everything.  — Sargent,  Reading  for  the  young. 

My  wife  and  I;  or,  Harry  Henderson’s  history.  1899.  (Riverside 
edition.)  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Followed  by  We  and  our  neighbors. 

Oldtown  folks.  1897.  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Portrays  a Massachusetts  town  a century  or  more  ago.  — New  York  state  library. 

[Full  to  repletion  of  delicate  sketches  of  very  original  characters,  and  clever  bits  of  dialogue,  and 
vivid  descriptions  of  natural  scenery.  — The  Spectator  (London).] 

Uncle  Tom’s  cabin;  with  introduction  by  the  author.  1896.  [Illus- 
trated. i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Bibliographic  account  of  Uncle  Tom’s  cabin,  pref.  p.  63-82. 

A story  of  plantation  life  before  the  civil  war. 

One  of  the  most  famous  of  “timely”  books.  It  was  not  half  true,  it  was  written  with  passion 
and  prejudice  and  it  accomplished  what  all  the  cool,  judicial  statements  in  the  world  would  have 
failed  in.  — Leypoldt  & Iles,  List  of  books  for  girls  and  women  and  their  clubs. 

We  and  our  neighbors;  or,  The  records  of  an  unfashionable  street. 
1901.  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Sequel  to  My  wife  and  I. 

Thanet,  Octave,  pseud. 

Knitters  in  the  sun.  1887.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  ogre  of  Ha  Ha  Bay;  The  bishop’s  vagabond;  Mrs.  Finley’s  Elizabethan  chair; 


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Father  Quinnailon’s  convert;  A communist’s  wife;  Schopenhauer  on  Lake  Pepin;  “Ma’  Bowlin’;” 
Half  a curse;  Whitson  Harp,  regulator. 

Short  stories  exhibiting  people  ©f  strongly  marked  character  in  the  stress  of  moral  conflict.  — E.  A. 
Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Otto  the  knight,  and  other  trans-Mississippi  stories.  1891.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

Contents:  Otto  the  knight;  The  conjured  kitten;  The  first  mayor;  Sist’  Chaney’s  black  silk; 
The  loaf  of  peace;  The  day  of  the  cyclone;  Trusty,  no.  49;  The  plumb  idiot;  The  governor’s 
prerogative;  The  mortgage  on  Jeffy. 

Tomlinson,  E.  T. 

Boys  of  old  Monmouth;  a story  of  Washington’s  campaign  in  New 

Jersey  in  1778.  1898.  [Illustrated.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  The  series  of  “ Revolutionary  stories,”  of  which  this  is  the  earliest,  includes 
four  more  books:  (2)  Jersey  boy  in  the  revolution;  (3)  In  the  hands  of  the  redcoats;  (4)  Under 
colonial  colors;  (5)  A lieutenant  under  Washington. 

Wallace,  Lewis. 

The  fair  god;  or,  The  last  of  the  ’Tzins.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

An  archeologic  reconstruction  of  Mexican  life  at  time  of  conquest.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive 
guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

White,  E.  O. 

Ednah  and  her  brothers.  1900.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Everyday  doings  of  four  children  who  flit  between  city  and  country  with 
their  artist  parents.  — New  York  state  library. 

[Charming  little  sketches  of  a family  of  children  who  have  as  a most  delightful  background  a 
father  who  is  a sculptor  and  a mother  who  paints.  The  story  of  Ednah  and  the  boys  presents  scenes 
that  are  decidedly  novel  and  interesting.  — Commercial  Advertiser  (New  York).] 

A little  girl  of  long  ago.  1896.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Story  of  child  life  in  the  Boston  of  colonial  times.  — Evanston  free  public 
library. 

When  Molly  was  six.  1894.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Twelve  realistic  studies  of  red  letter  days  in  a child’s  life,  one  for  each 
month.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg) . 

Winterborough.  1892.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Whitney,  Mrs.  A.  D.  (Train). 

Faith  Gartney’s  girlhood.  1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  New  England  story,  tracing  the  life  and  growth  from  girlhood  to  woman- 
hood of  Faith  Gartney  and  containing  something  of  the  thought  and  life  that  lie  between  14  and  20. 

The  Gayworthys;  a story  of  threads  and  thrums.  1893.  [i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Girl’s  story  of  New  England  village  people  a generation  or  more  ago.  Full 
of  shrewd  observations  and  kindly  humor.  — New  York  state  library. 

Hitherto;  a story  of  yesterdays.  1897.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Home  life  in  a New  England  country  place  some  fifty  years  ago.  — E.  A. 
Baker.  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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The  other  girls.  1901.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Fourth  volume  of  “Real  folks  series.” 

Follows  Real  folks.  * 

Real  folks.  1899.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.) 

Third  volume  of  “Real  folks  series.” 

Follows  We  girls. 

Two  orphan  sisters,  adopted  one  by  a city  aunt,  the  other  by  an  aunt  in  the  country,  and  how 
they  fared.  — New  York  state  library. 

A summer  in  Leslie  Goldthwaite’s  life.  1894.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Story  of  a young  girl’s  season  in  the  White  Mountains.  — Evanston  free 
public  library. 

Followed  by  We  girls;  Real  folks;  Other  girls. 

We  girls;  a home  story.  1898.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Second  volume  of  “Real  folks  series.” 

Follows  Summer  in  Leslie  Goldthwaite' s life. 

Pleasant  story  of  home  and  social  life  of  three  New  England  girls  with  cultivated  tastes  and 
limited  income.  — New  York  state  library. 

Wiggin,  Mrs.  K.  D. 

The  Birds’  Christmas  Carol.  1889.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $0.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  A story  of  mixed  pathos  and  fun;  the  pathos  in  the  life  of  an  invalid  girl; 
the  fun  in  the  amusing  performances  of  a large  family  of  small  poor  children  whom  she  befriends. 
— Editor  for  selection. 

[I  pity  him  who  can  read  the  story  without  tears  or  lay  it  down  without  feeling  the  better  for  having 
read  it.  But  I do  not  say  it  is  one  of  the  best  Christmas  stories  ever  written.  No,  I say  it  is  the 
very  best,  and  it  would  put  any  other  season  of  the  year  severely  to  its  trumps  to  show  one  as  good.  — 
John  Paul,  in  New  York  Times.] 

A cathedral  courtship,  and  Penelope’s  English  experiences.  1893. 

[Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.00. 

Humorous,  appreciative  narrative  of  travel  in  England.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

Penelope’s  Irish  experiences.  1901.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Sequel  to  Penelope' s progress. 

Travel  in  Ireland  bound  by  thread  of  love  story. 

Penelope’s  progress.  1898.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Sequel  to  Penelope's  English  experiences. 

Edinburgh  and  its  neighborhood  as  seen  by  the  three  heroines  of  Penelope's  English  experiences.  — 
New  York  state  library. 

Polly  Oliver’s  problem;  a story  for  girls.  1893.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.] 

$1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Lively  story  of  a bright  girl’s  solution  of  the  question  of  self-support.  — 
New  York  state  library. 

Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  farm.  1903.  [i2mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  An  original,  attractive  child  is  adopted  out  of  a large,  poor,  happy  go  lucky 
household  by  two  maiden  aunts.  The  child’s  natural  capers  and  the  elder  aunt’s  dismays  and 
disapproval  are  told  to  a pleasant  ending.  — Editor  for  selection. 


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Story  of  Patsy.  1889.  [Illustrated,  Sq.  i2mo.]  $0.60. 

Sketch  from  life,  droll  and  humorous,  sympathetic  with  the  weak  and  unfortunate;  the  hero  is 
a cripple.  Far  from  unpleasant  as  a picture  of  slum  life.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the 
best  fiction. 

A summer  in  a canon;  a California  story.  1889.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.] 

$1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  The  holiday  of  a party  of  bright  young  people  of  both  sexes  camping  out 
in  southern  California.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

Timothy’s  quest;  illustrated  by  Oliver  Herford.  1895.  [Crown  8vo, 

gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

[This  book  is  an  almost  perfect  idyll.  — London  Punch] 

814  American  essays 

Aldrich,, T.  B. 

Ponkapog  papers.  1903.  [i2mo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postage,  7 cents.] 

Contents:  Leaves  from  a note  book.  Asides:  Tom  Folio;  Fleabody  and  other  queer  name^; 
A note  on  “L’Aiglon;”  Plot  and  character;  The  cruelty  of  science;  Leigh  Hunt  and  Barry  Corn- 
wall; Decoration  Day;  Writers  and  talkers;  On  early  rising;  Un  pobte  manque;  The  male  costume 
of  the  period;  On  a certain  affectation;  Wishmakers’  Town;  Historical  novels;  Poor  Yorick;  The 
autograph  hunter.  — Robert  Herrick. 

Burroughs,  John. 

Birds  and  poets,  with  other  papers.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Birds  and  poets;  Touches  of  nature;  A bird  medley;  April;  Spring  poems;  Our  rural 
divinity;  Before  genius;  Before  beauty;  Emerson;  The  flight  of  the  eagle. 

Fresh  fields.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Nature  in  England;  English  woods,  a contrast;  In  Carlyle’s  country;  A hunt  for  the 
nightingale;  English  and  American  song  birds;  Impressions  of  some  English  birds;  In  Words- 
worth’s country;  A glance  at  British  wild  flowers;  British  fertility;  A Sunday  in  Cheyne  Row;  At 
sea. 

In-door  studies.  1889.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Literary  criticism,  including  papers  on  Thoreau,  Gilbert  White,  Matthew  Arnold,  Emerson, 
Carlyle,  true  realism,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

Literary  values  and  other  papers.  1902.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.10,  net. 

[Postage,  10  cents.] 

Magazine  essays  discussing  style,  criticism,  art  in  literature,  Gilbert  White,  Thoreau,  Emerson, 
nature  in  literature,  the  secret  of  happiness,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

Locusts  and  wild  honey.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  pastoral  bees;  Sharp  eyes;  Strawberries;  Is  it  going  to  rain?  Speckled  trout; 
Buds  and  birds;  A bed  of  boughs;  Birds’ -nesting;  The  halcyon  in  Canada. 

[The  minuteness  of  his  observation,  the  keenness  of  his  perception,  give  him  a real  originality,  and 
his  sketches  have  a delightful  oddity,  vivacity,  and  freshness.  — The  Nation  (New  York). 

Mr.  Burroughs  is  the  best  literary  naturalist  now  at  work  in  America.  — Saturday  Review .] 

Pepacton.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Pepacton;  A summer  voyage;  Spring;  An  idyl  of  the  honeybee;  Nature  and  the  poets; 
Notes  by  the  way;  Footpaths;  A bunch  of  herbs;  Winter  pictures. 


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[Mr.  Burroughs  brings  to  his  work  a genuine  and  passionate  love  of  nature,  and  a genial  and 
appreciative  temperament.  — The  Spectator  (London). 

Riverby.  1895.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Eighteen  essays  on  wild  flowers,  birds,  Kentucky  blue  grass,  Mammoth  cave,  the  southern 
Catskills,  sportsmen,  the  chipmunk,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

Signs  and  seasons.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  A sharp  lookout ; A spray  of  pine;  Hard  fare;  The  tragedies  of  the  nests 7 A snowstorm; 
A taste  of  Maine  birch;  Winter  neighbors;  A salt  breeze;  A spring  relish;  A river  view;  Bird 
enemies;  Phases  of  farm  life;  Roof -tree. 

Wake-robin.  1893.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  return  of  the  birds;  In  the  hemlocks;  Adirondac;  Birds’ -nests;  Spring  at  the 
capital;  Birch  browsings;  The  bluebird;  The  invitation. 

• Winter  sunshine.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  Winter  sunshine;  Exhilarations  of  the  road;  The  snow-walkers;  Tlje  fox;  A March 
chronicle;  Autumn  tides;  The  apple;  An  October  abroad. 

[There  are  three  books  which  no  true  lover  of  nature  can  afford  to  leave  unread,  — Wake-Robin, 
Winter  Sunshine,  and  Birds  and  Poets.  They  are  full  of  that  delicious  out-of-door  feeling  which  one 
finds  so  seldom  in  printed  volumes  and  which  no  art  can  simulate.  To  read  them  is  like  wandering 
in  the  woods  and  fields.  The  wind  blows  through  them,  the  birds  sing,  the  sun  shines,  and  the  water 
runs.  — Boston  Transcript .] 

Crothers,  S.  M. 

The  gentle  reader.  1903.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25,  net.  [Postage,  12 

cents.] 

Contents:  The  gentle  reader;  The  enjoyment  of  poetry;  The  mission  of  humor;  Cases  of  con- 
science concerning  witchcrafts;  The  honorable  points  of  ignorance;  That  history  should  be  read- 
able; Evolution  of  the  gentleman;  The  hinterland  of  science;  The  gentle  reader’s  friends  among 
the  clergy;  Quixotism;  Intimate  knowledge  and  delight. 

Most  reprinted  from  Atlantic  monthly,  v.  81-92,  May,  1898-Oct.,  1903.  — Carnegie  library 
(Pittsburg). 

Emerson,  R.  W. 

Complete  works.  12  v.  1883-93.  [With  portraits,  biographical 

sketch,  notes,  and  index.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.75  each. 

Contents:  v.  1,  Nature,  addresses  and  lectures.  V.  2,  Essays:  1st  series.  V.  3,  Essays;  2d  series. 
V.  4,  Representative  men.  V.  5,  English  traits.  V.  6,  The  conduct  of  life.  V.  7,  Society  and  soli- 
tude. V.  8,  Letters  and  social  aims.  V.  9,  Poems.  V.  10,  Lectures  and  biographical  studies. 
V.  11,  Miscellaneous.  V.  12,  Natural  history  of  intellect  and  other  papers,  with  a general  index. 

[There  is  no  man  living  to  whom,  as  a writer,  so  many  of  us  feel  and  thankfully  acknowledge  so 
great  an  indebtedness  for  ennobling  impulses.  We  look  upon  him  as  one  of  the  few  men  of  genius 
whom  our  age  has  produced.  — James  Russell  Lowell. 

Emerson  remains  among  the  most  persuasive  and  inspiring  of  those  who  by  word  and  example 
rebuke  our  despondency,  purify  our  sight,  awaken  us  from  the  deadening  slumbers  of  convention  and 
conformity,  exorcise  the  pestering  imps  of  vanity,  and  lift  men  up  from  low  thoughts  and  sullen  moods 
of  helplessness  and  impiety.  — John  Morley.] 

Fiske,  John. 

Century  of  science,  and  other  essays.  1899.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$2.00. 

Contents:  Century  of  science;  Doctrine  of  evolution:  its  scope  and  purport;  E.  L.  Youmans; 
Part  played  by  infancy  in  the  evolution  of  man;  Origins  of  liberal  thought  in  America;  Sir  Harry 


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Vane;  The  arbitration  treaty;  Francis  Parkman;  E.  A.  Freeman;  Cambridge  as  village  and  city; 
A harvest  of  Irish  folk-lore;  Guessing  at  half  and  multiplying  by  two;  Forty  years  of  Bacon-Shake- 
speare  folly;  Some  cranks  and  their  crotchets. 

Excursions  of  an  evolutionist.  1883.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Contents:  Europe  before  the  arrival  of  man;  Arrival  of  man  in  Europe;  Our  Aryan  forefathers; 
What  we  learn  from  old  Aryan  words;  Was  there  a primeval  mother-tongue?  Sociology  and  hero- 
worship;  Heroes  of  industry;  Causes  of  persecution;  Origins  of  protestantism;  The  true  lesson  of 
protestantism;  Evolution  and  religion;  The  meaning  of  infancy;  A universe  of  mind-stuff;  In 
memoriam:  Charles  Darwin. 

[Among  our  thoughtful  essayists  there  are  none  more  brilliant  than  Mr.  John  Fiske.  His  pure  style 
suits  his  clear  thought.  He  does  not  write  unless  he  has  something  to  say;  and  when  he  does  write, 
he  shows  not  only  that  he  has  thoroughly  acquainted  himself  with  the  subject,  but  that  he  has  to  a rare 
degree  the  art  of  so  massing  his  matter  as  to  bring  out  the  true  value  of  the  leading  points  in  artistic 
relief.  — The  Nation  (New  York).] 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Outdoor  studies;  Poems.  1900.  (Riverside  edition.)  [i2mo,  gilt  top.] 

$2.00. 

Studies  in  history  and  letters.  1900.  (Riverside  edition.)  [i2mo,  gilt 

top.]  $2.00. 

Holmes,  O.  W. 

Pages  from  an  old  volume  of  life;  essays,  1857-1881.  4th  ed.  1884. 

[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Lodge,  H.  C. 

Historical  and  political  essays.  1892.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  W.  H.  Seward;  James  Madison;  Gouverneur  Morris;  Why  patronage  in  office  is  un- 
American;  Distribution  of  ability  in  the  United  States;  Parliamentary  obstruction  in  the  United 
States;  Parliamentary  minorities;  Party  allegiance. 

Lowell,  J.  R. 

Writings  in  prose.  7 v.  1899.  (Riverside  edition.)  [With  por- 
traits. Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50  each. 

Contents:  v.  1-4,  Literary  essays.  V.  5,  Political  essays.  V.  6,  Literary  and  political  essays. 
V.  7,  Latest  literary  essays  and  addresses. 

[To  the  reader  of  Lowell’s  prose  we  may  say  what  Coleridge  once  said  to  a reader  of  the  prose  of 
Milton:  “ He  must  be  always  on  duty ; he  is  surrounded  with  sense.”  It  will  not  do  to  skip.  There 
is  everywhere  a profusion  of  riches  of  the  brain;  there  is  constant  astonishment  from  unexpected 
analogies,  wide-sweeping  philosophical  conclusions,  learned  allusions,  and  intuitions  flashing  to  the 
bottoms  of  things.  — Independent  (New  York).] 

v Repplier,  Agnes. 

Essays  in  miniature.  1895.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Bright,  brief  essays  on  literary  subjects.  — New  York  state  library. 

Points  of  view.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  A plea  for  humor;  English  love-songs;  Books  that  have  hindered  me;  Literary  shib- 
boleths; Fiction  in  the  pulpit;  Pleasure:  a heresy;  Esoteric  economy;  Scanderbeg;  English  railway 
fiction. 

A plea  for  cheerfulness  in  literature  and  simplicity  in  criticism.  — New  York  state  library. 


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Varia.  1897.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contents:  The  eternal  feminine;  The  deathless  diary;  Guides,  a protest;  Little  pharisees  in  fic- 
tion; The  f<>tc  de  Gayant;  Cakes  and  ale;  Old  wine  and  new;  The  royal  road  of  fiction;  From  the 
reader’ s standpoint. 

Sill,  E.  R. 

Prose  of  E.  R.  Sill;  with  an  introduction  comprising  some  familiar  let- 
ters. 1900.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Originally  appeared  in  Contributors’  club  of  Atlantic  monthly.  Cover  a wide  range  of  topics,  are 
full  of  quaint  and  original  conceptions  and  sparkle  with  witty  sayings.  — New  York  state  library. 

[This  collection  of  Sill’s  prose  writings  will  be  very  welcome  to  a goodly  number  of  readers;  and 
the  number  would  be  very  large  indeed  if  it  were  to  include  all  who  are  capable  of  deriving  from  these 
pages  an  exquisitely  refined  pleasure  and  profit.  — Advertiser  (Boston).] 

Torrey,  Bradford. 

Birds  in  the  bush.  8th  ed.  1895.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Chiefly  studies  of  birds  in  rambles  in  various  parts  of  New  England.  They  are  among  the  best 
literature  about  birds.  — Leypoldt  & Iles,  List  of  books  for  girls  and  women  and  their  clubs. 

[Mr.  Torrey’s  writings  have  a charm  in  their  happily  worded  sentences  that  never  dull  the  delicate 
edge  of  his  humor,  and  that  bring  us  the  fragrance  of  the  northern  woods  without  loss  of  any  of  its 
freshness.  He  is  not  merely  a philosopher  and  a sayer  of  happy  things.  He  observes  nature  keenly 
as  well  as  sympathetically,  and  with  a spirit  of  scientific  caution  that  stamps  his  work  w*ith  a value 
which  the  writings  of  many  a more  prominent  ornithologist  will  never  possess.  — The  Auk  (New 
York).] 

Whipple,  E.  P. 

Character  and  characteristic  men.  1894.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Character;  Eccentric  character;  Intellectual  character;  Heroic  character;  The  Amer- 
ican mind;  The  English  mind;  Thackeray;  Hawthorne;  Edward  Everett;  Thomas  Starr  King; 
Agassiz;  Washington  and  the  principles  of  the  revolution. 

Wilson,  Woodrow. 

Mere  literature,  and  other  essays.  1896.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Mere  literature;  The  author  himself;  On  an  author’s  choice  of  company;  A literary 
politician  (Walter  Bagehot);  The  interpreter  of  English  liberty  (Edmund  Burke);  The  truth  of  the 
matter;  A calendar  of  great  Americans;  The  course  of  American  history. 

Opening  essay  a spirited  plea  for  the  study  and  appreciation  of  literature  as  literary  art.  — Gayley 
& Scott,  Introduction  to  methods  and  materials  of  literary  criticism. 

817  American  satire  and  humor 

Holmes,  O.  W. 

Autocrat  of  the  breakfast-table.  1892.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Full  of  alert  wisdom,  droll  humor,  and  shrewd  observation  of  life.  The  scraps  of  poetry  are 
among  his  finest  verse.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

[From  Dr.  Holmes  there  comes  a fascination  that  is  always  fresh  and  buoyant.  How  the  pages 
run  over  with  sunshine,  and  the  treasures  of  a unique  personality!  — New  York  Tribune .] 


Over  the  teacups.  1896.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.50. 


The  peculiar  note  of  these  talks  is  the  confidence  with  which  the  author  speaks  of  his  past  to  the 
army  of  friends  whom  his  kind  wit  and  wise  heart  have  gained.  — Literary  world. 


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45 

Poet  at  the  breakfast-table.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Professor  at  the  breakfast-table;  with  The  story  of  Iris.  1898.  (River- 
side edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Warner,  C.  D. 

Backlog  studies.  1900.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.25. 

[It  is  Mr.  Warner  in  his  most  various  guise  — quaint,  dry,  pretendedlv  serious  at  times;  then 
genial  and  hearty;  anon,  dashed  with  a bit  of  pathos;  now  argumentative  and  philosophical,  and 
at  their  best  when  they  are  wholly  fanciful.  It  is  a book  not  exactly  like  any  other,  for  it  is  essay, 
reminiscence,  history,  criticism,  humor,  and  poetry  mixed,  and  mixed  by  a practiced  hand.  — Brook- 
lyn Daily  Eagle.] 

Being  a boy.  1897.  [Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Reminiscences  and  reflections  on  actual  boyhood  lovingly  remembered. 

[The  book  is  full  of  the  dry  unexpected  humor  of  which  Mr.  Warner  is  a master,  and  is  equally 
delightful  to  boys  of  all  ages  from  six  to  say  sixty  or  seventy  years.  — New  York  Evening  Post.] 

My  summer  in  a garden.  1898.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i6mo.]  $1.50. 

An  attempt  to  tell  the  truth  about  one  of  the  most  fascinating  occupations  in  the  world.  — C.  D. 
Warner. 

[His  book  is  just  such  an  out-of-the-way  intermingling  of  quiet  humor  and  strange  conceit  as 
Charles  Lamb  might  have  perpetrated,  had  he  plied  spade  and  hoe  in  his  little  patch  of  garden  at 
Edmonton,  and  then  jotted  down,  for  the  delight  and  instruction  of  his  readers,  the  odd  fancies  and 
deep  thoughts  which  his  pleasant  labor  had  suggested.  — Notes  and  Queries  (London).] 

818  American  miscellany 

Thoreau,  H.  D. 

Autumn.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Extracts  from  the  daily  journal  of  Thoreau,  who  “had  watched  nature  like  a detective  who  is 
to  go  on  the  stand.”  — J.  R.  Lowell. 

Early  spring  in  Massachusetts.  1896.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Excursions.  1895.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.50. 

Miscellanies;  with  a biographical  sketch  by  R.  W.  Emerson,  and  a gen- 
eral index  to  the  writings.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Summer.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

- Walden;  or,  Life  in  the  woods.  1897.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Describes  his  attempt  to  solve  the  problem  of  simple  living  by  building  and  occupying  a small 
house  in  the  woods.  Keen  observations  on  animals,  plants  and  birds.  — Leypoldt  & Iles,  List 
of  books  for  girls  and  women  and  their  clubs. 

Contains  the  sum  and  essence  of  his  ideal  and  ethical  philosophy;  written  in  his  most  powerful 
and  incisive  style.  — H.  S.  Salt. 

Winter.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

[His  descriptions  of  nature  are  glowing  with  vitality.  He  loved  every  tree  and  shrub.  His 


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pictures  are  true  to  life,  and  inspired  with  passion.  Though  clothed  in  the  language  of  prose,  they 
are  alive  with  the  deepest  spirit  of  poetry.  Their  enchantment  never  palls  upon  the  sense;  they 
charm  the  reader  into  love  of  the  scene,  if  not  of  the  writer,  and  fill  his  memory  with  sweet  and 
pleasant  images  of  the  beauty  and  mystery  of  Nature.  — The  Independent  (New  York).] 


820  English  literature 

Johnson,  Rossiter,  editor. 

Little  classics.  18  v.  1900.  [i6mo.]  $1.00  each. 

Contents:  v.  i,  Exile.  V.  2,  Intellect.  V.  3,  Tragedy.  V.  4,  Life.  V.  5,  Laughter.  V.  6, 

Love.  V.  7,  Romance.  V.  8,  Mystery.  V.  9,  Comedy.  V.  10,  Childhood.  V.  11,  Heroism. 

V.  12,  Fortune.  V.  13,  Poems,  narrative.  V.  14,  Poems,  lyrical.  V.  15,  Minor  poems.  V.  16, 

Nature.  V.  17,  Humanity.  V.  18,  Authors;  biographical  sketches  of  the  authors  represented  in 

the  series,  with  a general  index. 

Scudder,  V.  D. 

Social  ideals  in  English  letters.  1898.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.75. 

Study  of  literature  as  affected  by  and  as  influencing  social  philosophy  and  conditions  from  Lang- 
land  to  present  day  writers.  — New  York  state  library. 

821  English  poetry 

Browning,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Barrett). 

Complete  poetical  works.  1899.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Has  biographic  sketch  by  Harriet  Waters  Preston,  notes,  double  indexes,  and  portraits. 

An  inspired  singer,  if  there  ever  was  one  — all  fire  and  air  her  song  and  soul  alike  devoted  to 
liberty,  aspiration  and  ethereal  love.  — E.  C.  Stedman. 

Burns,  Robert. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1897.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Includes  W.  E.  Henley’s  essay,  Robert  Burns , life , genius,  achievement. 

[His  songs  are  already  part  of  the  mother-tongue,  not  of  Scotland  only,  but  of  Britain,  and  of  the 
millions  that  in  all  ends  of  the  earth  speak  a British  language.  In  hut  and  hall,  as  the  heart  unfolds 
itself  in  many-colored  joy  and  woe  of  existence,  the  name,  the  voice,  of  that  joy  and  that  woe,  is  the 
name  and  voice  which  Burns  has  given  them.  . . . Everywhere,  indeed,  in  his  sunny  moods,  a full, 
buoyant  flood  of  mirth  rolls  through  the  mind  of  Burns;  he  rises  to  the  high,  and  stoops  to  the  low, 
and  is  brother  and  playmate  to  all  Nature.  ...  It  is  reverence,  it  is  love  towards  all  Nature,  that 
inspires  him,  that  opens  his  eyes  to  its  beauty,  and  makes  heart  and  voice  eloquent  in  its  praise.  — 
Thomas  Carlyle.] 

Child,  F.  J,,  editor. 

English  and  Scottish  popular  ballads;  edited  by  H.  C.  Sargent  and 

G.  L.  Kittredge.  1904.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.)  [With 

portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

One  selected  version  of  nearly  every  ballad  in  Prof.  Child’s  edition  in  5 volumes,  with  general 
introduction,  and  brief  introduction  to  each  ballad.  — Editor  for  selection. 

Keats,  John. 

Complete  poetical  works  and  letters.  1899.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the 

poets.)  [With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 


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Milton,  John. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1900.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Life  of  Milton,  by  W.  V.  Moody,  pref.  p.  9-34. 

Pope,  Alexander. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1902.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

[In  his  own  province  Pope  still  stands  unapproachably  alone.  If  to  be  the  greatest  satirist  of 
individual  men,  rather  than  of  human  nature;  if  to  be  the  highest  expression  which  the  life  of  the 
court  and  the  ball-room  has  ever  found  in  verse;  if  to  have  added  more  phrases  to  our  language  than 
any  other  but  Shakespeare;  if  to  have  charmed  four  generations,  make  a man  a great  poet,  — then 
he  is  one.  Measured  by  any  high  standard  of  imagination  he  will  be  found  wanting;  tried  by  any 
test  of  wit  he  is  unrivaled.  — J ames  Russell  Lowell.] 

Procter,  A.  A. 

Complete  poetical  works,  with  an  introduction  by  Charles  Dickens. 

1903.  (Cabinet  edition.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Repplier,  Agnes,  editor. 

Book  of  famous  verse.  1892.  [i6mo.]  $0.75. 

(For  young  readers.)  Well  chosen  for  children,  and  embracing  martial  strains,  tales  of  brave 
deeds  and  romance,  somber  ballads  and  joyous  lyrics;  mainly  19th  century  verse.  — New  York 
state  library. 

Scott,  Sir  Walter. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1900.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Biographic  sketch,  pref.  p.  11-23. 

Edition  revised  by  W.  J.  Rolfe,  $3.50,  is  also  good.  It  is  convenient  to  have  also  editions  of 
The  lady  of  the  lake,  The  lay  of  the  last  minstrel,  and  Marmion,  e.  g.  the  Students’  series,  editor, 
W.  J.  Rolfe,  75  cents  each.  — Editor  for  selection. 

Scudder,  V.  D. 

Life  of  the  spirit  in  the  modern  English  poets.  1901.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt 

top.]  $1.75. 

Study  of  poetry  as  influenced  by  and  interpreting  modern  democratic,  scientific  and  religious 
ideals.  — New  York  state  library. 

Shairp,  J.  C. 

Aspects  of  poetry.  1891.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

With  respect  to  the  poetry  of  nature,  no  more  suggestive  a critic.  — E.  C.  Stedman. 

Shelley,  P.  B. 

Complete  poetical  works.  1901.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 

[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Edited  by  G.  E.  Woodberry. 

[If  any  one  now  living  has  a right  to  undertake  the  care  of  an  edition  that  is  worthy  of  the  poet, 
Mr.  Woodberry  may  claim  that  right;  for  he  adds  to  the  research  and  accuracy  of  editors  like 
Rossetti  and  Forman  and  Dowden  the  delicate  sympathy  and  insight  of  a mind  which  belongs  to 
Shelley’s  own  spiritual  family.  ...  It  is  fair  to  say  that  no  other  edition  can  be  matched  with  Mr. 
Woodberry’s.  — New  York  Evening  Post.] 


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LITERATURE 


Stedman,  E.  C.,  editor. 

Victorian  anthology,  1837-1895.  1895.  [Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 

$2.50. 

A truthful  exhibit  of  the  course  of  song  during  60  years,  as  shown  by  the  poets  of  Great  Britain 
in  the  best  of  their  shorter  productions.  Designed  to  supplement  his  Victorian  poets  by  choice  and 
typical  examples  of  the  work  discussed.  — Preface. 

Victorian  poets;  revised  and  extended  to  the  fiftieth  year  of  the  period 
under  review.  1903.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.25.  • 

Interpretative  in  a very  real  sense  of  the  period  it  surveys,  and  likely  for  that  reason  to  possess 
permanent  importance.  — H.  W.  Mabie,  in  Bookman. 

[Mr.  Stedman  deserves  the  thanks  of  English  scholars.  He  is  faithful,  studious,  and  discerning; 
of  a sane  and  reasonable  temper,  and  in  the  main  a judicial  one;  his  judgment  is  disciplined  and 
exercised,  and  his  decisions,  even  when  we  cannot  agree  with  them,  are  based  on  intelligent  grounds. 
— Saturday  Review  (London).] 

Whittier,  J.  G.,  editor. 

Child-life;  a collection  of  poems.  1872.  [Illustrated.  Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Poems  for  and  about  children.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

[Probably  no  better  collection  of  poetry  adapted  to  the  reading  of  children  was  ever  published 
than  that  entitled  Child-Life , edited  by  the  poet  Whittier.  . . . For  enjoyment  and  instruction,  it 
is  worth  whole  libraries  of  common  children’s  books;  indeed,  this  and  its  companion,  Child-Life  in 
Prose , would  constitute  a library  for  any  family  of  children,  the  value  of  which  they  would  never 
cease  to  acknowledge.  Parents  who  are  forming  little  libraries  for  their  households  will  do  well  to 
begin  with  these  two  volumes,  even  if  their  means  forbid  buying  any  others  at  present.  — Boston 
Advertiser .] 

Songs  of  three  centuries.  1890.  (Household  edition.)  [Illustrated. 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Gathers  up  the  best  of  the  old  ballads  and  short,  time-approved  poems;  draws  largely  from  con- 
temporary writers  and  the  waifs  and  estrays  of  unknown  authors.  Includes  careful  selection  of 
hymns.  — Preface. 

Browning,  Robert. 

Complete  poetic  and  dramatic  works.  1895.  (Cambridge  edition  of 
the  poets.)  [With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

Contains  biographic  sketch,  bibliographic  head-notes,  and  appendix  with  notes  and  Browning’s 
suppressed  essay  on  Shelley. 

Cooke,  G.  W. 

Guide-book  to  the  poetic  and  dramatic  works  of  Robert  Browning. 
1891.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

The  best  things  said  of  Browning,  pref.  p.  9-14. 

Alphabetic  arrangement  of  titles,  characters,  allusions,  and  well-known  quotations,  with  fairly 
full  information.  Now  incorporated  in  introduction  and  notes  of  1899  Riverside  edition.  — New 
York  state  library. 

Tennyson,  Alfred  Tennyson,  1st  baron. 

Poetic  and  dramatic  works.  1898.  (Cambridge  edition  of  the  poets.) 
[With  portrait.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Biographic  sketch,  by  W.  J.  Rolfe,  pref.  p.  n-17. 


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[In  whatsoever  light  we  examine  the  characteristics  of  the  laureate’s  genius,  the  complete  and  even 
balance  of  his  poetry  is  from  first  to  last  conspicuous.  ...  In  Tennyson  we  have  the  strong  repose 
of  art,  whereof  — as  of  the  perfection  of  Nature  — the  world  is  slow  to  tire.  ...  An  artist  so  per- 
fect in  a widely  extended  range  that  nothing  of  his  work  can  be  spared;  certainly  to  be  regarded 
in  time  to  come  as,  all  in  all,  the  fullest  representative  of  the  refined,  speculative,  complex  Victorian 
age.  — E.  C.  Stedman. 

He  has  given  more  and  keener  delight  to  the  reading  world  than  any  other  author  during  his  life- 
time. Hundreds  of  Tennyson’s  lines  and  phrases  have  become  fixed  in  the  popular  memory,  and 
there  is  scarcely  one  that  is  not  suggestive  of  beauty,  or  consoling,  or  heartening.  — Bayard 
Taylor.] 

822  English  drama 

Lamb,  Charles  and  Mary. 

Tales  from  Shakespeare.  1894.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.00. 

(For  young  readers.)  Designed  for  nursery  and  schoolroom,  these  tales  have  taken  their  place 
as  an  English  classic.  They  have  never  been  superseded,  nor  are  they  ever  likely  to  be.  — Alfred 
Ainger. 

823  English  fiction 

Brown,  John. 

Rab  and  his  friends  and  other  dogs  and  men.  1900.  [i6mo.] 

$1.00. 

Also  in  class  824  in  his  Spare  hours , v.  1. 

A tenderly  beautiful  Scotch  story  of  a rare  woman  and  a noble  dog.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

824  English  essays 

Brown,  John. 

Spare  hours.  3 v.  1883.  [i6mo.]  $3.00. 

Contents:  ser.  1,  Rab  and  his  friends,  and  other  papers.  Ser.  2,  John  Leech,  Marjorie  Fleming, 
and  other  papers.  Ser.  3,  Locke  and  Sydenham,  and  other  papers. 

[Few  volumes  of  miscellaneous  essays  have  won  more  hearty  friends  and  drawn  out  a wider  per- 
sonal feeling  from  their  readers  than  Dr.  John  Brown’s  Spare  Hours.  The  simplicity,  sincerity, 
warmth  of  feeling,  keen  observation  of  life,  and  genial  humor  which  characterize  these  essays  have 
given  them  a very  great  charm,  and  are  likely  to  keep  them  long  in  the  memory  and  hearts  of  a large 
circle  of  readers.  — Christian  Union  (New  York).] 

De  Quincey,  Thomas. 

Beauties  selected  from  his  writings.  1900.  [i6mo.]  $1.50. 

The  best  passages  of  De  Quincey  have  never  been  surpassed  for  sustained  splendor  of  language, 
exquisite  balance  and  modulation  and  rhythmic  charm.  — W.  J.  Dawson. 

[A  great  master  of  English  composition;  a critic  of  uncommon  delicacy;  an  honest  and  unflinch- 
ing investigator  of  received  opinions;  a philosophic  inquirer  second  only  to  his  first  and  sole  hero 
(Coleridge),  — De  Quincey  has  left  no  successor  to  his  rank.  The  exquisite  finish  of  style,  with  the 
scholastic  vigor  of  his  logic,  forms  a combination  which  centuries  may  never  reproduce,  but  which 
every  generation  should  study  as  one  of  the  marvels  of  English  literature.  — Quarterly  Review 
(London).] 

830  GERMAN  LITERATURE 

832  German  drama 

Goethe,  J.  W.  von. 

Faust,  a tragedy;  translated  in  the  original  metres  by  Bayard  Taylor. 
2 v.  1898.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 


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LITERATURE 


[Mr.  Bayard  Taylor  has  rendered  the  whole  poem  in  English  wonderfully  close  and  wonderfully 
free  from  strain  and  harshness.  Line  for  line  and  metre  for  metre,  he  followed  Goethe’s  way, 
flinching  before  no  difficulties,  and  seldom  otherwise  than  victorious,  — a labor  so  great  that  no 
man  could  have  hoped  for  success  who  had  not  in  himself  enough  of  the  poetic  spirit  to  undertake 
it  as  a labor  of  love.  Bayard  Taylor’s  Faust  is  altogether,  to  our  mind,  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
feats  of  translation  achieved  in  any  modern  language.  — Saturday  Review  (London). 

It  is  not  only  a success,  in  the  common  sense  of  the  word;  not  only  a faithful  rendering  of  the 
sense  of  the  original  in  pleasing  English  verse,  but  it  is  a transfer  of  the  spirit  and  the  form  of  that 
wonderful  book  into  our  own  tongue  to  an  extent  which  would  have  been  thought  impossible  had 
it  not  been  made.  — New  York  Evening  Post.] 

839  MINOR  TEUTONIC  LITERATURE 
Fiction 

Andersen,  H.  C. 

The  improvisatore;  translated  by  Mary  Howitt.  Author’s  edition. 
[i2mo.]  $1.00. 

A kind  of  disguised  autobiography.  Pictures  of  old  Italy  before  the  revolution  are  full  of  strong 
imaginative  life  and  poetic  color.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 

840  FRENCH  LITERATURE 

Vincent,  L.  H. 

The  French  academy.  1901.  (Brief  studies  in  French  society.)  [i8mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Contents:  The  golden  age;  Richelieu  and  the  Academy;  Chapelain,  the  observer  of  ancient 
customs;  Vaugelas  and  the  Dictionary;  A group  of  academicians. 

Hotel  de  Rambouillet  and  the  Precieuses.  1900.  (Brief  studies  in 
French  society.)  [i8mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Contents:  Hotel  de  Rambouillet,  its  mistress  and  its  guests;  D’Urfe,  Malherbe  and  Balzac;  Voi- 
ture  and  Montausier;  Mademoiselle  de  Scudery  and  her  ‘ Saturdays  ; ’ The  Precieuses. 

[A  resume  of  the  chief  facts  of  the  story  of  those  splendid  decades  when  the  famous  salon  of 
Catherine  de  Vivonne,  Marquise  de  Rambouillet,  was  in  its  full  glory.  — Christian  Advocate  (New 
York).] 

843  French  fiction 

Fenelon,  Francois  de  Salignac  de  la  Mothe 

Adventures  of  Telemachus;  translated  by  Dr.  Ha wkes worth,  with  a 
life  of  Fenelon  by  Lamartine,  an  essay  by  Villemain,  critical  and  bib- 
liographical notices,  etc.,  edited  by  O.  W.  Wight.  1887.  [i2mo.] 

$2.25. 

Romance  based  on  the  Odyssey , relating  the  adventures  of  the  son  of  Ulysses  in  his  quest  for  his 
father;  written  as  a lesson  in  virtue,  piety,  and  political  wisdom,  but  taken  as  a satire  on  the  court 
of  Louis  XIV;  a masterpiece  of  classic  French  prose.  — E.  A.  Baker,  Descriptive  guide  to  the  best 
fiction. 

Saint-Pierre,  J.  H.  B.  de. 

Paul  and  Virginia;  illustrated  by  Augustus  Hoppin.  (Riverside  clas- 
sics.) 1898.  [i6mo.]  $1.00. 

An  idyl  of  primitive  natures.  Scene  the  Isle  de  France  (i.  e.  Mauritius).  Utopian  sentimentalism 
is  the  inspiration,  and  inhabitants  of  Happy  Valley  are  models  of  human  perfection.  — E.  A.  Baker, 
Descriptive  guide  to  the  best  fiction. 


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5i 


Saintine,  J.  X.  B. 

Picciola;  translated  from  a new  edition  revised  by  the  author;  illus- 
trated by  Leopold  Flameng.  1872.  (Riverside  classics.)  [i6mo.]  $1.00. 

Touching  episode  of  a prisoner’s  life,  whose  only  joy  was  a small  flower  in  his  prison  yard.  — 
Cornu  & Beer,  List  of  French  fiction. 

850  ITALIAN  LITERATURE 

851  Italian  poetry 
Kuhns,  L.  O. 

Great  poets  of  Italy.  1903.  [Illustrated.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$2.00,  net.  [Postage,  13  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Contents:  Origins  of  Italian  literature;  Dante,  his  life  and  minor  works;  The 
Divine  comedy;  Petrarch  and  Boccaccio;  The  renaissance;  Ariosto;  Tasso;  The  period  of  de- 
cadence and  the  revival;  The  nineteenth  century. 

[Poets  are  so  treated  that  the  work  forms  a tolerably  consecutive  history  of  Italian  poetry.  Copi- 
ous extracts  given  in  translations  almost  invariably  good.  Excellent  portraits.  — Nation.] 

Dante,  Alighieri. 

Divine  comedy;  translated  by  H.  W.  Longfellow.  1895.  [8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $2.50. 

The  3 v.  edition  of  this  translation,  [crown  8vo]  $4.50,  desirable.  — Editor  for  selection. 

[His  translation  is  the  most  faithful  version  of  Dante  that  has  ever  been  made.  He  has  proved 
that  an  almost  literal  rendering  is  not  incompatible  with  an  exquisite  poetic  charm;  . . . the  notes 
are  full  of  pleasant  learning,  set  forth  with  that  grace  and  beauty  of  style  which  are  characteristic 
of  Mr.  Longfellow’s  prose;  and  the  long  extracts  which  he  gives  from  Carlyle,  Macaulay,  Ruskin, 
and  other  eminent  writers  make  his  comment  a thesaurus  of  the  best  judgments  that  exist  in  Eng- 
lish concerning  the  poet  and  his  poems.  — Charles  Eliot  Norton,  in  North  American  Review.] 

Divine  comedy;  translated  by  C.  E.  Norton.  Revised  ed.  3 v. 
1902.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.50. 

Contents:  v.  1,  Hell.  V.  2,  Purgatory.  V.  3,  Paradise. 

The  ideal  translator.  Now  Dante  lives  in  English,  and  it  may  well  turn  out  that  this  translation 
shall  stand  as  the  chief  literary  product  in  America  during  the  past  20  years.  — Atlantic  monthly. 

[It  is  so  clear  a rendering  that  it  adds  immensely  to  the  interest  and  the  understanding  with  which 
one  generally  reads  this  poem  in  translation.  — New  York  Evangelist. 

Professor  Norton’s  prose  translation  of  the  Divine  Comedy  fitly  crowns  the  study  of  a lifetime. 
...  It  bears  the  stamp  of  Professor  Norton’s  rare  culture,  and  by  virtue  of  its  style  becomes  an 
American  classic  no  less  than  a modern  rendering  of  one  of  the  masters  of  literature.  — H.  W. 
Mabie,  in  the  Forum.] 

New  life;  translated  by  C.  E.  Norton.  3d  ed.  1895.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Contents:  The  new  life;  Essays:  On  the  New  life,  The  Convito  and  the  Vita  nuova,  On  the 
structure  of  the  Vita  nuova;  Notes. 

DANTE  : CRITICISM,  etc. 

Dinsmore,  C.  A.,  editor. 

Aids  to  the  study  of  Dante.  1903.  [Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.50,  net.  [Postage,  16  cents.] 

Bibliography,  p.  429-430. 

Contributions  by  various  scholars  on  the  following  topics:  The  times  of  Dante,  Sources  of  our 


52  LITERATURE 

knowledge  of  Dante,  Dante’s  personal  appearance,  The  Vita  nuova,  Minor  works,  The  Divina 
commedia,  Interpretations. 

Well-considered  selection  of  such  documentary  and  critical  matter  as  the  beginner  will  find 
most  useful.  — Dial. 

860  SPANISH  LITERATURE 

Ticknor,  George. 

History  of  Spanish  literature.  6th  American  ed.  revised.  3 v.  1891. 
[8vo.]  $10.00. 

[Still  the  exhaustive  and  authoritative  work  on  the  subject.  — W.  C.  Lawton,  in  Dial.] 

870  LATIN  LITERATURE 

871  Latin  poetry  in  general 

Tyrrel,  R.  Y. 

Latin  poetry.  1895.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Percy  Turnbull  lectures  in  Johns  Hopkins  university.  1893. 

880  GREEK  LITERATURE 

Masterpieces  of  Greek  literature:  Homer,  Tyrtseus,  Archilochus;  Cal- 
listratus;  Alcaeus,  Sappho,  Anacreon,  Pindar,  iEschylus,  Sophocles, 
Euripides,  Aristophanes,  Herodotus,  Thucydides,  Xenophon,  Plato, 
Theocritus,  Lucian;  With  biographical  sketches  and  notes;  supervising 
editor,  J.  H.  Wright.  1902.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Selection,  biographic  and  other  notes  by  Miss  C.  H.  Seymour.  — Introduction. 

Selection  well  made;  notes  clearly  written  and  sufficient  for  general  reader,  to  whom  it  is  heartily 
commended.  Scholarly  and  suggestive  introduction  by  Prof.  J.  H.  Wright.  — Nation. 

881  Greek  poetry  in  general 

Appleton,  W.  H.,  editor. 

Greek  poets  in  English  verse,  by  various  translators.  1893.  [i2mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  Homer;  Homeric  hymns;  Hesiod;  Early  lyric  and  elegiac;  Pindar;  ^Eschylus; 
Sophocles;  Euripides;  Aristophanes;  Theocritus;  Bion  ; Moschus;  Apollonius  Rhodius:  Musaeus, 
The  anthology;  Proclus. 

A survey  of  Greek  poetry  in  the  best  forms  it  has  taken  in  the  work  of  English-writing  poets. 

Jebb,  Sir  R.  C. 

Growth  and  influence  of  classical  Greek  poetry;  lectures  1892.  1893. 

[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

(Readable.)  No  other  general  survey  in  English  presents  so  clearly  the  value  of  Greek  poetry 
in  the  history  of  literature.  Popular  in  demanding  no  previous  knowledge  of  the  subject;  but 
scholarly  inasmuch  as  no  sentence  is  written  at  random,  without  due  warrant  in  the  researches  of 
a lifetime.  — Nation. 

882  Greek  dramatic  poetry 

Euripides. 

Three  dramas;  by  W.  C.  Lawton.  1889.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 


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Contents:  On  the  origin  and  spirit  of  Attic  tragedy;  The  Alkestis;  The  Medea;  The  Hip- 
poly  tos;  Epilogue. 

Translation,  interspersed  with  critical  commentaries. 

Sophocles. 

Antigone;  translated  with  introduction  and  notes  by  G.  H.  Palmer. 
1899.  [i2mo.]  $0.75. 

Not  only  spirit,  but  letter  of  original  most  wonderfully  preserved.  Introductory  sketch  of  story 
and  observations  on  character  and  province  of  Greek  chorus.  — Critic. 

883  Greek  epic  poetry 

Homerus. 

The  Iliad;  translated  into  English  blank  verse  by  W.  C.  Bryant.  1898. 
(Roslyn  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

Smooth,  dignified,  rather  slow  blank  verse.  Despite  some  little  embroidery  of  Homer’s  plainest 
passages,  this  rendering  is  a very  faithful  one.  — W.  C.  Lawton. 

The  Odyssey,  books  1-12;  text  and  English  version  in  rhythmic  prose 
by  G.  H.  Palmer.  1895.  [8vo.]  $2.50,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

The  real  merits  of  this  translation  are  its  transparent  diction,  its  directness,  its  combination  of 
fidelity  with  idiom,  of  dignity  with  ease  and  its  eminent  readableness.  — Nation. 

The  Odyssey;  translated  into  English  blank  verse  by  W.  C.  Bryant. 
1899.  (Roslyn  edition).  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

890  LITERATURE  OF  MINOR  LANGUAGES 

891  Minor  Indo-European 

PERSIAN. 

Omar  Khayydm. 

Rubaiyat;  in  English  verse,  by  Edward  Fitzgerald.  1902.  [i6mo.] 

$1.50. 

Text  of  4th  edition  followed  by  that  of  the  first;  with  notes  and  a biographic  preface.  — Title. 

892  Semitic  literature 

Arabian  nights. 

Stories  from  the  Arabian  nights.  1897.  (Riverside  school  library.) 
[Illustrated.  i6mo.]  $0.60,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Contains  many  of  the  more  famous  stories.  — Editor  for  selection. 


900  HISTORY 


902  Compends.  Outlines 

Ploetz,  Karl. 

Epitome  of  ancient,  mediaeval,  and  modern  history;  translated  with 
additions  by  W.  H.  Tillinghast.  9th  ed.  1884.  [Crown  8vo.] 
$3.00. 


54  HISTORY 

(Reference  book.)  Perhaps  the  most  valuable  of  all  the  small  reference  books.  1889.  — C.  K. 
Adams,  Manual  oj  American  literature. 

[A  new  edition  of  this  work,  issued  in  1905,  now  brings  it  down  to  the  present  day.] 

910  Geography  and  travel 

Dana,  R.  H. 

Two  years  before  the  mast.  New  ed.  1895.  (Riverside  literature 
series.)  [Crown  8vo.]  $0.60,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Remarkably  vivid  and  practical  record.  Leads  all  others  as  the  book  best  descriptive  of  the  life 
of  the  American  sailor,  and  has,  deservedly,  become  a sea  classic.  — E.  S.  Brooks. 

913  ANTIQUITIES 

913.37  Rome,  Italy 

Lanciani,  R.  A. 

Ancient  Rome  in  the  light  of  recent  discoveries.  1888.  [Illustrated. 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $6.00. 

Comprehensive  description  of  results  of  modern  archeologic  researches  in  Rome.  Of  great 
interest  and  value.  Gives  a vivid  picture  of  life  in  ancient  Rome.  — Science. 

Ruins  and  excavations  of  ancient  Rome.  1897.  [Illustrated.  Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Covers  the  whole  field,  and  includes  the  most  recent  results  of  Roman  topographic  investigation. 
Enormous  mass  of  material  arranged  and  presented  with  simplicity  and  skill  — J.  R.  Wheeler,  in 
Science. 

913.38  Greece 

Tsountas,  Chrestos,  and  Manatt,  J.  I. 

The  Mycenaean  age;  with  introduction  by  Dr.  Dorpfeld.  1897. 
[Illustrated.  Large  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $6.00. 

Study  of  the  monuments  and  culture  of  pre-Homeric  Greece.  Of  interest  to  general  reader  and 
archeologist.  — New  York  state  library. 

914  TRAVELS  IN  EUROPE 

Aldrich,  T.  B. 

From  Ponkapog  to  Pesth.  1883.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

European  travel  sketches,  touching  foreign  funerals,  beggars,  Pope  Pius  IX,  Naples,  Tangier, 
etc. 

[The  airy,  fairy  charm  of  these  slight  sketches  is  quite  indescribable.  . . . He  has  the  art  to  paint 
a picture  in  a phrase,  a word,  and  to  make  with  his  poetic  vision  the  desert  of  the  commonplace 
traveler  to  blossom  as  the  rose.  — New  York  Tribune.'] 

James,  Henry. 

Portraits  of  places.  1883.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Treats  of  three  countries,  England,  France,  and  Italy.  Mr.  James  is  a quiet,  rational,  and  shrewd 
observer,  whose  delicate  appreciation  notices  many  things  that  would  escape  most  people.  — P.  G. 
Hamerton,  in  Academy. 


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Transatlantic  sketches.  1903.  [i2mo.]  $2.00. 

Contents:  Chester;  Lichfield  and  Warwick;  North  Devon;  Wells  and  Salisbury;  Swiss  notes; 
From  Chamb£ry  to  Milan;  From  Venice  to  Strasburg;  The  Parisian  stage;  A Roman  holiday; 
Roman  rides;  Roman  neighborhoods;  The  after-season  in  Rome;  From  a Roman  note-book;  A 
chain  of  cities;  The  St.  Gothard;  Siena;  Autumn  in  Florence;  Florentine  notes;  Tuscan  cities; 
Ravenna;  The  Splugen;  Homburg  reformed;  Darmstadt;  In  Holland;  In  Belgium. 

He  is  the  last  man  we  should  consult  for  statistics,  but  his  sketches  give  the  very  marrow  of 
sensitive  impression.  — Nation. 

Longfellow,  H.  W. 

Outre-mer,  a pilgrimage  beyond  the  sea.  4th  ed.  1850.  [i6mo.]  $1.50. 

Contents:  France;  Spain;  Italy. 

Filled  both  with  the  learning  of  the  great  scholar  of  many  literatures  and  with  the  romance  of  the 
poet. 

Satchel  guide  for  the  vacation  tourist  in  Europe,  by  W.  J.  Rolfe.  Latest 
ed.  1904.  [With  maps  and  plans.  i8mo,  roan,  flexible.]  $1.50,  net. 
[Postpaid.] 

Revised  annually. 

A compact  itinerary  of  the  British  Isles,  Belgium  and  Holland,  Germany  and  the  Rhine, 
Switzerland,  France,  Austria  and  Italy.  — Title. 

[1906  edition  now  ready.] 

Warner,  C.  D. 

A roundabout  journey.  1883.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Round  the  western  coast  of  the  Mediterranean,  visiting  France,  Sicily,  Malta,  Morocco,  Spain; 
also  an  account  of  Wagner’s  opera  at  Bayreuth.  — Sargent,  Reading  for  the  young. 

Saunterings.  1900.  [i8mo.]  $1.00. 

Record  of  travel  in  England,  France,  Belgium,  Holland,  Switzerland,  Bavaria,  and  Italy.  — Title. 

9 14.  i Scotland 

Hunnewell,  J.  F. 

Lands  of  Scott.  1899.  [With  map  and  portrait.  i2mo.]  $2.50. 

914.2  England 

Brown,  Alice. 

By  oak  and  thorn;  a record  of  English  days.  1896.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.j 
$1.25. 

Travel  notes  in  Warwickshire,  the  lands  of  Arthur,  the  Bronte  country,  the  haunts  of  the  Doones, 
latter-day  Cranford,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel. 

Our  old  home,  and  English  note-books.  2 v.  1891.  (Riverside  edi- 
tion.) [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00  each. 

English  travel  sketches,  written  during  his  residence  as  American  consul  at  Liverpool,  1853-57.  — 
New  York  state  library. 

[The  readers  of  current  English  literature  have  had  a delightful  surprise  in  the  publication  of 
these  Note-books  of  Hawthorne,  in  finding  them  rich  in  revelations  of  the  character  of  the  man, 
and  in  passages  of  pleasant  description,  beyond  any  of  his  former  writings.  There  is  a freshness 
and  unstudied  simplicity  in  his  daily  memoranda  that  can  only  be  found  in  writings  not  intended 
by  the  author  for  publication.  — New  York  Evening  Post.} 


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HISTORY 


Holmes,  O.  W. 

Our  hundred  days  in  Europe.  1891.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

[No  one  can  read  this  book  without  feeling  that  here  was  a traveler  who  knew  how  to  make  the 
very  best  of  his  tour.  It  is  not  his  round  of  splendid  entertainments  in  London  that  he  seems  most 
to  have  enjoyed,  or  that  gives  most  pleasure  to  the  reader  in  his  descriptions.  It  is  rather  the  things 
he  did  which  any  one  else  could  do  as  well  as  he,  the  places  he  sought  out,  the  memories  he  called 
up,  the  ideas  he  received,  the  associations  he  lived  in  during  those  parts  of  his  journeying  which 
had  nothing  to  do  with  the  distinguished  attentions  paid  him  by  his  transatlantic  admirers.  — The 
Examiner  (New  York).] 

Hoppin,  J.  M. 

Old  England:  its  scenery,  art,  and  people.  1867.  [With  map.  Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.75. 

[We  know  of  no  book  which  we  could  so  confidently  recommend  as  a companion  to  one  making 
an  English  tour  as  this.  — Boston  Transcript.'] 

Scudder,  H.  E. 

The  English  Bodley  family.  1883.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  8vo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.) 

White,  R.  G. 

England  without  and  within.  1881.  [i2mo.]  $2.00. 

Informal,  matter  of  course,  untouristlike  chronicles.  — Dial. 

914.4  France 

James,  Henry. 

A little  tour  in  France;  illustrated  by  Joseph  Pennell.  1900.  [Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

One  could  hardly  have  a more  charming  picture-book  of  France.  He  knows  the  French,  their 
history,  their  mind,  and  their  customs  considerably  better  than  most  travelers  do.  — Spectator. 

914.5  Italy 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel. 

Passages  from  the  French  and  Italian  note-books.  1899.  (Riverside 
edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

[In  these  full,  frank,  and  beautiful  diaries  we  have  a better  picture  of  Hawthorne  than  any  other 
hand  than  his  own  could  draw.  We  learn  to  appreciate  the  exquisite  refinement  of  his  nature,  and 
love  him  for  the  tenderness  and  beauty  of  his  character  far  more  than  we  ever  did  before.  — New 
York  Tribune .] 

Howells,  W.  D. 

Italian  journeys.  New  ed.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Edition  illustrated  by  Joseph  Pennell,  [crown  8vo,  gilt  top]  $3.00. 

Shows  same  fine  perception,  exquisite  humor,  freshness  of  feeling,  refinement  and  delicacy  of 
treatment  as  Venetian  life.  — Harper's  magazine. 

Tuscan  cities,  illustrated  from  drawings  and  etchings  by  Joseph  Pennell 
and  others.  1886.  [i2mo.]  $3.50. 

Florence,  Siena,  Pisa,  Lucca,  Pistoja,  Prato,  Fiesole. 


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Norton,  C.  E. 

Notes  of  travel  and  study  in  Italy.  1887.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Of  unique  value  because  of  its  delicate  appreciation  of  the  value  of  fine  art.  Contains  account 
of  the  building  of  Orvieto  cathedral  in  the  14th  century.  — Sturgis  & Krehbiel,  Annotated  biblio- 
graphy oj  fine  art. 

[Much  of  the  old  charm  of  Venetian  Life  is  certainly  here.  The  daring  disregard  of  convention- 
ality, the  happy  discovery  of  aspects  of  life  unnoticed  by  previous  travelers,  the  artistic  and  novel  use 
of  illustrative  side  lights,  the  quick  insight  into  the  characteristics  of  places,  the  unforced  flow  of  del- 
icate humor,  the  fascination  of  a style  distinguished  more  by  natural  grace  than  by  laborious  polish, 
and  the  genial  understanding  between  the  author  and  the  reader  — all  these  qualities  reappear  in 
the  new  record  of  travel,  and  if  they  seem  less  striking  than  they  did  of  old,  we  must  remember  that 
Mr.  Howells  himself  is  no  longer  a fresh  sensation,  but  a familiar  favorite.  — New  York  Tribune.'] 

Williams,  E.  R. 

Hill  towns  of  Italy.  1903.  [Illustrated.  Large  crown  8 vo.]  $3.00,  we/. 
[Postage,  21  cents.] 

(Readable.)  An  introduction  to  rather  inaccessible,  rarely  visited,  but  most  interesting  places.  — 
Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

ROME. 

Story,  W.  W. 

Roba  di  Roma.  8th  ed.  2 v.  1887.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

[There  is  an  indescribable  fascination  for  the  scholarly  reader  in  this  glimpse  which  the  poet 
sculptor-litterateur  vouchsafes  of  his  thought  and  feeling  in  the  Eternal  City,  and  it  has  become,  like 
the  Marble  Faun , a hand-book  for  the  cultivated  traveler.  — The  Churchman  (New  York).] 

VENICE. 

Howells,  W.  D. 

Venetian  life.  19th  ed.  1895.  [i2mo.]  $1.50. 

A true,  vivid,  and  almost  a complete  picture  of  Venetian  life.  — Pall  Mall  gazette. 

[We  know  of  no  single  word  which  will  so  fitly  characterize  Mr.  Howells’s  volume  about  Venice,  as 
“delightful.”  — North  American  Review .] 

Smith,  F.  H. 

Gondola  days.  1897.  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Text  from  Venice  of  to-day.  Illustrated  by  the  author. 

914.6  Spain 

Harris,  Mrs.  Miriam  (Coles). 

A corner  of  Spain.  1898.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(Readable.)  Describes  life  in  Malaga,  the  Seville  fairs  and  bull  fights.  — New  York  state  library. 

Hay,  John. 

Castilian  days.  Revised  ed.  1899.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(Readable.)  Studies  of  Spanish  manners,  character  and  politics,  written  in  1871;  sets  admirablv 
before  us  the  men  and  tendencies  which  have  gone  to  the  making  of  Spain  and  the  Spaniard  to-day. 
Lucid,  forcible  style;  pleasant  humor.  — Saturday  review. 

914.7  Russia 

Hapgood,  F. 

Russian  rambles.  1895.  [Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Certain  surface  aspects  of  Russian  life  pleasantly  and  truthfully  treated.  — Dial. 


58  HISTORY 

914.9  Minor  countries  of  Europe 
914.92  NETHERLANDS 
Griffis,  W.  E. 

The  American  in  Holland;  sentimental  rambles 
and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Traces  the  abundant  historical  associations  of  interest  to  Americans 

915  ASIA 

9 1 5. 1 China 
KOREA. 

Lowell,  Percival. 

Choson,  the  land  of  the  morning  calm;  a sketch  of  Korea.  1886.  [Il- 
lustrated. 4to,  gilt  top.]  $5.00. 

Characteristics  of  China,  Japan,  and  Korea,  with  philosophic  views  and  personal  recollec- 
tions. 

[A  great  deal  more  than  a mere  narrative  of  residence  in  Korea.  It  goes  to  the  bottom  of  the 
whole  question  of  the  main  characteristics  of  the  three  far-Eastern  nations,  China,  Japan,  and 
Korea,  mixing  philosophical  views,  new  information,  personal  recollections,  and  witty  remarks  in 
such  fashion  as  to  conciliate  the  tastes  of  all  classes  of  readers.  . . . Fortunately  for  the  subject,  it 
has  been  taken  in  hand  by  one  who  had  the  verve  of  youth  allied  with  the  curiosity  of  the  scientist. 
These  serve  as  torches  that  light  up  with  a picturesque  beauty  the  cavernous  recesses  of  the  Hermit 
Kingdom.  — The  Japan  Gazette  (Yokohama).] 

915.2  Japan 
Bacon,  A.  M. 

Japanese  girls  and  women.  Revised  ed.  1902.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Edition  illustrated  by  Keishu  Takenouchi,  [crown  8vo,  gilt  top]  $4.00. 

Education,  marriage,  and  divorce,  motherhood,  court  life,  women  in  the  palace  and  hut,  and  as 
laborers  and  servants  in  country  and  city.  Clear,  full  and  trustworthy.  — Literary  world. 

[This  modest  volume  gives  in  a short  compass  the  best  account  that  has  yet  been  published 
of  Japanese  family  life,  — a sanctum  into  which  all  travelers  would  fain  pry,  but  of  which  even 
most  old  residents  know  surprisingly  little.  — Prof.  Basil  Hall  Chamberlain,  in  Things  Jap- 
anese,.] 

A Japanese  interior.  1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

(Readable.)  Daily  experiences  of  an  open-minded  American  girl  who  taught  in  the  school  for 
peeresses  in  Tokio;  trustworthy.  — New  York  state  library. 

Hearn,  Lafcadio. 

Glimpses  of  unfamiliar  Japan.  2 v.  1894.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$4.00. 

(Readable.)  Descriptions  of  travel,  wonderful  accounts  of  famous  temples  and  neighborhoods, 
charming  stories  of  personal  experience;  succeeds  in  photographing,  as  it  were,  the  Japanese  soul.  • 
Nation. 

Kokoro;  hints  and  echoes  of  Japanese  inner  life.  1896.  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.25. 

Sympathetic  and  artistic  portrayal  of  emotional  life  as  seen  in  J apanese  patricftism*,  religiousness, 
romantic  love,  etc.  — New  York  state  library. 


. 1899.  [With  map 

. — New  York  state  library. 


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915.6  Turkey  in  Asia 

Warner,  C.  D. 

In  the  Levant.  1876.  [Crown  8vo.]  $2.00. 

Continues  the  narrative  of  My  winter  on  the  Nile , describing  the  coast  of  Turkey  from  Palestine 
to  Greece.  — Buffalo  public  library. 

[It  is  not  often  that  of  a volume  of  recent  Eastern  travel  it  can  be  honestly  said  that  it  is 
more  than  hard  to  find  a single  dull  page  in  the  whole  four  hundred;  but  even  more  may  be 
said  for  Mr.  Warner’s  well-seasoned,  graphic  record  of  his  adventures.  From  first  to  last  he 
has  the  same  unflagging  spirit,  the  same  sparkle  of  humor  and  power  of  observation.  — London 
Standard .] 

916  AFRICA 

916.2  Egypt 

Bacon,  Mrs.  Lee. 

Our  houseboat  on  the  Nile.  1901.  [Illustrated.  i2mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.75,  net.  [Postage,  15  cents.] 

Leisurely  pilgrimage  in  a dahabiyeh  from  first  to  second  cataract.  Illustrations  from  Mr.  Bacon’s 
water  colors.  — New  York  state  library. 

Warner,  C.  D. 

My  winter  on  the  Nile.  1899.  [Crown  8vo.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.  Readable.) 

[Whether  one  has  been  in  the  East,  or  is  going  to  the  East,  or  does  not  expect  ever  to  go,  these 
books  are  of  all  travel  books  the  best,  because  most  truthful  and  companionable  guides,  having  in 
them  the  very  atmosphere  and  sunlight  of  the  Orient.  — Wm.  C.  Prime,  LL.D.] 


917  AMERICA 

Warner,  C.  D. 

Baddeck,  and  that  sort  of  thing.  1874.  [i8mo.]  $1.00. 

An  excursion  to  Cape  Breton.  — Sargent,  Reading  for  the  young. 


917.2  Mexico 
Smith,  F.  H. 

White  umbrella  in  Mexico;  illustrated  by  the  author.  1889.  [i6mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

The  grace  of  these  artistic  travels  lies  in  freedom  from  fixed  plan  and  grasping  of  instantaneous 
impressions.  — Critic. 

[Rambling  through  Mexico  with  his  white  umbrella  and  his  sketching  materials,  recognized 
everywhere  as  a privileged  being,  and  admitted  everywhere  with  that  mediaeval  reverence  for  art 
which  survives  only  in  what  are  called  semi-civilized  lands,  the  strolling  tourist  evidently  received 
the  pleasantest  impressions,  and  has  reflected  them  faithfully  both  with  pen  and  pencil  in  these 
sprightly  pages.  — New  York  Tribune.] 

917.3  United  States 

Earle,  Mrs.  Alice  (Morse). 

Colonial  dames  and  good  wives.  1895.  [iamo.]  $1.50. 


6o 


HISTORY 


Miinsterberg,  Hugo. 

American  traits  from  the  point  of  view  of  a German.  1901.  [Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.60,  net.  [Postage,  14  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Informal  essays  comparing  German  and  American  ideals,  education,  scholarship, 
women,  and  democracy;  by  a Harvard  professor.  Frank  and  stimulating  in  criticism.  — New 
York  state  library. 

[Not  in  the  learned  style  of  the  university  lecture,  but  in  the  lively,  brilliant,  graphic  and  sometimes 
even  colloquial  style  of  a very  bright  traveler,  recounting  his  impressions  in  the  company  of  bright 
men  and  women  who  dwell  where  he  has  traveled.  — Boston  Advertiser. 

Written  throughout  in  a thorough  spirit  of  fair-mindedness.  — Boston  Transcript .] 

917.4  Northeastern  or  North  Atlantic.  New  England 

Bolles,  Frank. 

At  the  north  of  Bearcamp  water.  1893.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Chronicles  of  a stroller  in  New  England  from  July  to  December.  — Title. 

Land  of  the  lingering  snow.  1891.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Short  essays  describing  country  tramps  near  Boston,  or  in  eastern  Massachusetts.  Gives  much 
information  concerning  homes  and  habits  of  birds.  — J.  R.  Lowell. 

917.41  Maine 
Thoreau,  H.  D. 

Maine  woods.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.50. 

His  power  of  observation  seemed  to  indicate  additional  senses.  He  saw  as  with  a microscope, 
heard  as  with  an  ear  trumpet.  — R.  W.  Emerson. 

917.42  New  Hampshire 

Aldrich,  T.  B. 

An  old  town  by  the  sea  (Portsmouth,  N.  H.).  1893.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 

$1.00. 

Thaxter,  Mrs.  Celia  (Laighton). 

Among  the  Isles  of  Shoals.  1901.  [Illustrated.  i8mo.]  $1.25. 

Describes  the  islands  in  all  their  aspects,  and  the  quaint  manners  and  speech  prevailing  there.- 
Written  from  lifelong  acquaintance.  — New  York  state  library. 

[The  book  is  not  exactly  a guide-book.  It  is  something  more  and  better,  — a description  of  the 
islands,  and  of  life  upon  them,  by  one  who  has  gathered  her  knowledge  out  of  the  store  of  a rich 
experience.  It  is  a book  no  one  who  visits  the  islands  can  do  without.  — Boston  Advertiser.] 

Torrey,  Bradford. 

Footing  it  in  Franconia.  1901.  [i6mo.]  $1.10,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

917.44  Massachusetts 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel. 

Passages  from  the  American  note- books.  1895.  (Riverside  edition.) 
[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Hawthorne’s  diary,  1835-53. 

[The  revelations  of  the  interior  life  of  the  author  which  everywhere  abound  in  these  volumes  give 
them  the  charm  of  an  autobiography.  They  not  only  disclose  his  methods  of  working  in  the  com- 
position of  fiction,  but  throw  a broad  light  around  his  personal  traits  and  habits  of  thought.  But 


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every  disclosure  in  these  volumes  tends  to  enhance  the  high  and  admirable  reputation  of  Mr.  Haw- 
thorne. They  have  the  same  inimitable  felicity  of  expression  which  gives  such  fascination  to  every 
production  of  his  pen.  — New  York  Tribune .] 

Thoreau,  H.  D. 

Cape  Cod.  1893.  (Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

The  work  of  a keen  lover  and  student  of  nature  and  observer  of  men.  Fine  contribution  to 
historical  materials  for  analysis  of  American  character.  — H.  T.  Tuckerman. 

A week  on  the  Concord  and  Merrimack  rivers.  1894.  (Riverside 
edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

If  any  would  steal  away  from  the  region  of  wintry  skies  into  regions  of  perpetual  summer,  let 
him  take  the  proffered  hand  of  Thoreau,  and  by  the  side  of  a slender  New  England  river  walk  with 
the  sages  and  poets  of  all  ages.  — New  York  independent. 

917.47  New  York 
Warner,  C.  D. 

In  the  wilderness.  1878.  [i8mo.]  $1.00. 

Essays  descriptive  of  summer  life  in  Adirondacks.  — G.  E.  Hardy,  500  books  for  the  young. 

917.5  Southeastern  or  South  Atlantic 

Warner,  C.  D. 

On  horseback;  a tour  in  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and  Tennessee,  with 
notes  of  travel  in  Mexico  and  California.  1888.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

917.56  North  Carolina 

Torrey,  Bradford. 

A world  of  green  hills ; observations  of  nature  and  human  nature  in  the 
Blue  Ridge.  1898.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

9 1 7.59  Florida 

Torrey,  Bradford. 

Florida  sketch-book.  1894.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

917*6  South  Central  States 

917.68  Tennessee 
Torrey,  Bradford. 

Spring  notes  from  Tennessee.  1896.  [i6mo.]  $1.25. 

Bird  studies  made  on  Tennessee  battlefields.  — New  York  state  library. 

917.8  Western  or  Mountain  States 

917.87  Wyoming 
Muir,  John. 

Our  national  parks.  1901.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.75,  net.  [Post- 
age, 17  cents.] 

Sketches  first  published  in  the  Atlantic  monthly.  — Preface. 

Written  by  a genuine  lover  of  nature  who  knows  more  about  the  forests  and  streams,  the  moun- 
tains and  glaciers,  the  flowers  and  animals,  of  the  Pacific  slope  than  any  other  living  person.  — 
Nation. 


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HISTORY 


Austin,  Mrs.  Mary  (Hunter). 

The  land  of  little  rain.  1903.  [Illustrated.  8vo.]  $2.00,  net.  [Post- 
age, 24  cents.] 

Describes  with  unusual  fidelity  the  marvels  of  the  desert,  the  strange  birds  and  beasts  and  flowers, 
the  Indian,  the  greaser  and  the  gold-hunter.  Well  illustrated.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 


918  South  America 
918.1  Brazil 

Agassiz,  Louis,  and  Mrs.  E.  Cabot  (Cary). 

Journey  in  Brazil.  1895.  [Illustrated,  and  with  map.  Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

A fascinating  account  of  nature  and  man,  in  South  Brazil  and  on  the  Amazon  in  1864  and  1866.  — 
H.  R.  Mill. 

[A  most  charming  and  instructive  volume.  It  will  be  an  indispensable  companion  for  every 
traveler  in  Brazil;  and  its  intrinsic  merits  assure  for  it  general  favor  and  circulation.  — Pall  Mall 
Gazette.\ 

920  BIOGRAPHY 

Collective 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Contemporaries.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Contents:  R.  W.  Emerson;  A.  B.  Alcott;  Theodore  Parker;  John  G.  Whittier;  Walt  Whitman; 
Sidney  Lanier;  An  evening  with  Mrs.  Hawthorne;  Lydia  Maria  Child;  Helen  Jackson  (“H.  H.”); 
John  Holmes,  Thaddeus  William  Harris;  A visit  to  John  Brown’s  household  in  1859;  William  L. 
Garrison;  Wendell  Phillips;  Charles  Sumner;  Dr.  Howe’s  antislavery  career;  U.  S.  Grant;  The 
eccentricities  of  reformers;  The  road  to  England. 

Parton,  James. 

Captains  of  industry.  2 v.  1884-94.  [i6mo.]  $1.25  each. 

[All  the  narratives  teach  the  same  lesson,  — that  patience  and  perseverance,  with  good  habits, 
may  accomplish  anything  aimed  at.  The  father  who  puts  this  book  into  the  hands  of  his  boy  may 
sowT  the  seed  for  a more  important  harvest  than  he  dreams  of.  — Boston  Transcript .] 

Thayer,  W.  R. 

Throne-makers.  1899.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Studies  of  four  “throne-makers”  — Bismarck,  Napoleon  III,  Kossuth,  Garibaldi  — and  of 
Carlyle,  Tintoret,  Bruno  and  Bryant.  — New  York  state  library. 

Individual 
Stillman,  W.  J. 

Autobiography  of  .a  journalist.  2 v.  1901.  [With  portraits.  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $6.00. 

His  personal  friendships  with  Emerson,  Lowell,  Agassiz,  Rossetti,  and  others,  and  wide  acquaint- 
ance with  art,  archeology,  and  European  affairs  of  last  half  century  lend  high  interest.  Appeared 
in  abridged  form  in  Atlantic  monthly,  v.  85,  1900. 


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920.7  Biography  of  women 

Individual 
Winslow,  A.  G. 

Diary;  edited  by  Alice  Morse  Earle.  1894.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Journal  of  a little  Boston  schoolgirl,  supplemented  by  editor’s  notes. 
Entertaining  picture  of  domestic  life  in  Boston  a century  ago.  — New  York  state  library. 

922  Religion 

Individual 

BEECHER. 

* 

Abbott,  Lyman. 

Henry  Ward  Beecher.  1903.  [With  portraits.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.75,  net . [Postage,  13  cents.] 

Bibliography,  pref.  p.  17-38. 

Portrays  the  great  preacher  from  long  acquaintance,  as  a man,  as  pastor,  as  reformer,  and  as 
patriot.  — New  York  state  library. 

BROOKS. 

Lawrence,  William,  bp. 

Phillips  Brooks;  a study.  1903.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $0.50,  net.  [Post- 
age, 5 cents.] 

Address  delivered  at  Trinity  church  on  the  tenth  anniversary  of  Bishop  Brooks’s  death. 

BUSHNELL. 

Munger,  T.  T. 

Horace  Bushnell,  preacher  and  theologian.  1899.  [With  portraits. 
Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Published  writings,  pref.  p.  11-14. 

Less  a biography  than  a critical,  though  sympathetic,  examination  of  his  theologic  position  and 
teachings.  — Literary  world. 

CHANNING. 

Chadwick,  J.  W. 

William  Ellery  Channing.  1903.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.75,  net. 
[Postage,  13  cents.] 

CLARKE. 

Clarke,  J.  F. 

Autobiography,  diary,  and  correspondence,  edited  by  E.  E.  Hale.  1891. 
[Crown  8vo.]  $1.50. 

Autobiography  brings  story  down  to  1840,  after  which  the  diary  and  letters  carry  it  on.  Dr.  Hale 
has  supplied  missing  links  and  written  a chapter  on  the  character  of  the  man.  — New  York  stale 
library. 

EDWARDS. 

Allen,  A.  V.  G. 

Jonathan  Edwards.  1889.  (American  religious  leaders.)  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.25. 


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Bibliography,  p.  39i"393- 

Brings  out  the  distinctive  features  of  his  career  as  a parish  minister,  a revival  preacher  and  a 
philosophic  theologian.  — New  York  observer. 

FOX. 

Hodgkin,  Thomas. 

George  Fox.  1896.  (English  religious  leaders.)  [i2mo.]  $1.00. 

MANNING. 

Hutton,  A.  W. 

Cardinal  Manning.  1892.  [i2mo.]  $1.00. 

PARKER. 

Chadwick,  J.  W. 

Theodore  Parker,  preacher  and . reformer.  1900.  [With  portraits. 

Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Bibliography,  pref.  p.  11-20. 

Well-proportioned  outline  in  which  the  scholar,  teacher,  minister,  heretic,  theologian,  and  anti- 
slavery leader  lives  before  us.  — New  York  state  library. 

[A  new  generation  needs  to  know  Parker  in  the  truthful  relation  in  which  he  is  presented  in  this 
volume.  It  is  a brilliant  contribution  to  American  biography.  Mr.  Chadwick  has  perfectly  assimi- 
lated his  material,  and  enriched  it  with  his  abundant  culture,  his  sparkling  wit,  graceful  allusion, 
and  poetic  charm.  — Rev.  S.  J.  Barrows,  in  The  Christian  Register .] 

923  Sociology 

Chief  rulers 

Ropes,  J.  C. 

The  first  Napoleon;  a sketch,  political  and  military.  3d  ed.  1886. 

[With  portrait  and  maps.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Lowell  institute  lecture,  March,  1885. 

Concise  and  forcible.  — New  York  state  library. 

United  States 

Individual 

ADAMS,  JOHN  and  ABIGAIL. 

Familiar  letters  of  John  Adams  and  his  wife  Abigail  Adams,  during  the 

revolution,  with  memoir  of  Mrs.  Adams.  1876.  [With  portrait. 

i2mo.]  $2.00. 

Takes  its  place  by  the  side  of  the  most  valuable  documents  of  our  revolutionary  history.  — 
Nation. 

Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr. 

John  Adams.  1900.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Graphic  portraiture,  and  excellent  study  of  our  politics  in  days  of  Adams,  of  fortunes  of  federal 
party  and  attitude  of  its  two  hostile  forces,  represented  by  Adams  and  Hamilton.  — Hartford 
courant. 


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ADAMS,  J.  Q. 

Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr. 

John  Quincy  Adams.  1882.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Trustworthy  in  details;  chief  merit  in  its  comprehension  of  essential  character  of  Adams  and  its 
sympathetic  interpretation  of  the  man  and  his  work.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

JACKSON. 

Sumner,  W.  G. 

Andrew  Jackson  as  a public  man.  1882.  (American  statesmen.) 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Books  referred  to,  p.  387-392. 

Able,  critical  treatment  of  political  and  financial  history,  1824-40.  — Literature  of  American 
history. 

JEFFERSON. 

Merwin,  H.  C. 

Thomas  Jefferson.  1901.  (Riverside  biographical  series.)  [With 
portrait.  Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  6 cents.] 

Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr. 

Thomas  Jefferson.  1883.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Based  on  Randall’s  Life  and  Jefferson’s  Works.  Over  two  thirds  of  book  devoted  to  Jefferson’s 
official  career  after  1790,  his  relations  to  Washington,  Hamilton,  Randolph,  Burr,  to  the  Louisiana 
purchase,  and  to  the  embargo,  receiving  particular  attention.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

LINCOLN. 

Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr. 

Abraham  Lincoln.  2 v.  1893.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $2.50. 

Best  brief  life  of  Lincoln.  Condensed  but  clear.  Very  careful  of  facts,  and  inviting  confidence. 
— Literature  of  American  history. 

Schurz,  Carl. 

Abraham  Lincoln.  1891.  [With  portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

Originally  published  in  Atlantic  monthly  as  a review  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  a history , by  Nicolay 
and  Hay. 

Perhaps  best  sketch  of  character  and  achievements  of  the  great  president.  — New  York  state 
library. 

[In  outline  and  detail  the  finest  study  of  Lincoln  in  the  same  space.  — Christian  Register  (Boston).] 

MADISON,  MRS.  DOROTHY  (PAYNE). 

Memoirs  and  letters  of  Dolly  Madison,  edited  by  her  grandniece.  1886. 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Sprightly  and  entertaining,  giving  valuable  accounts  of  important  historical  events.  Short  nar- 
rative statements  by  editor  connect  letters  and  explain  allusions.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[A  delicious  glimpse  of  American  life  in  its  highest  public  circles  during  the  early  days  of  the 
Republic ; and  a better  figure  to  illustrate  it  in  its  purity,  beauty,  and  simple  dignity  could  hardly 
be  imagined  than  Mrs.  Madison.  — The  Independent  (New  York).] 


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MADISON,  JAMES. 

Gay,  S.  H. 

James  Madison.  1884.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Study  of  the  statesman  and  of  the  political  movements  in  which  he  took  part;  critical  and  gener- 
ous. — Nation. 

From  federalist  standpoint;  specially  full  on  origin  of  federal  convention.  — Literature  of  Ameri- 
can history. 

[By  joining  a personal  interest  with  the  political  and  historical  interest  of  the  subject,  the  narration 
is  made  all  the  more  attractive.  — Boston  T ranscript.] 

VAN  BUREN. 

Shepard,  E.  M. 

Martin  Van  Buren.  Revised  ed.  1900.  (American  statesmen.) 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  Si. 25. 

Places  him  on  high  plane  of  statesmanship,  as  real  successor  of  Jefferson  and  his  associates. 
Gives  a new  interpretation  to  both  national  and  New  York  state  politics  of  1820-50.  Chapter  on 
crisis  of  1837,  of  permanent  general  interest.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

WASHINGTON,  GEORGE. 

Lodge,  H.  C. 

George  Washington.  2 v.  1889.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.25  each. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Written  from  abundant  knowledge,  embodies  excellent  judgment  and 
temper,  and  a strong  desire  to  be  accurate.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

Scudder,  H.  E. 

George  Washington.  1889.  (Riverside  school  library.)  [With  por- 
trait and  illustrations.  i6mo.]  $0.60,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  One  of  best  of  lives  of  Washington  for  young  readers,  and  among  the  best 
of  one-volume  lives  of  Washington  for  readers  of  any  age.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[Mr.  Lodge  has  written  an  admirable  biography,  and  one  which  cannot  but  confirm  the  American 
people  in  the  prevailing  estimate  concerning  the  Father  of  his  Country;  but  its  deepest  and  most 
important  significance  appears  to  us  to  consist  in  its  testimony  to  the  exaltation  and  the  uniqueness 
of  a character  whose  like  comes  seldom  to  the  world,  and  only  in  periods  of  great  stress  and  crisis.  — 
New  York  Tribune. 

The  series  to  which  belongs  Mr.  Lodge’s  biography  of  the  foremost  man  of  all  this  Western  World 
has  had  no  addition  made  to  its  list  more  interesting  than  the  present  volumes;  it  has  had  none 
that  was  more  certain  of  wide  reading,  and  it  has  had  not  more  than  two  or  three  — one  of  these 
being  Mr.  Carl  Schurz’s  Henry  Clay  — which  were  so  notable  as  a literary  achievement.  — New 
York  Times.] 

Statesmen , etc. 

Individual 

Kropotkin,  P.  A.,  prince. 

Memoirs  of  a revolutionist.  1899.  [With  portraits.  Crown  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $2.00. 

(Readable.)  Published  in  Atlantic  monthly,  Sept.  1898-Sept.  1899,  under  title  The  autobiography 
of  a revolutionist. 

Graphic  details  of  Russian  conditions  and  of  an  eventful  life.  — New  York  state  library. 


X 


VANE. 


HISTORY 


67 


Hosmer,  J.  K. 

Life  of  young  Sir  Henry  Vane;  with  a consideration  of  the  English  com- 
monwealth as  a forecast  of  America.  1888.  [With  portrait  and  plans. 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Thorough  and  critical.  Author  sympathizes  strongly  with  Vane’s  political  and  religious  views, 
but  is  not  unduly  partial;  uses  original  as  well  as  secondary  sources.  — Literature  of  American 
history. 

United  States 


Individual 
ADAMS,  C.  F. 

Adams,  C.  F.,  Jr. 

\ Charles  Francis  Adams,  by  his  son.  1900.  (American  statesmen.) 
[i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Tells  little  of  personal  traits.  Narration  of  services  while  minister  to  England;  sheds  a 
valuable  light  on  relations  between  England  and  America  during  civil  war.  — New  York  state 
library. 


ADAMS,  SAMUEL. 

Hosmer,  J.  K. 

Samuel  Adams.  1899.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 

$1.25. 

Interesting  and  appreciative,  setting  forth  fairly  the  man,  his  work  and  his  times.  — Nation. 
Furnishes  substantially  a compact  history  of  occasions  and  manner  of  opening  a revolutionary 
war.  — G.  E.  Ellis. 

[Its  high  literary  quality,  its  purity  of  style,  its  clearness  of  statement,  and  above  all,  its  impartial- 
ity, make  for  it  at  once  a place  among  the  best  works  of  the  kind  in  American  literature.  — Boston 
Transcript .] 


BENTON. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore. 

Thomas  Hart  Benton.  1903.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.25. 


Author  understands  Benton  and  sympathizes  with  him;  points  out  his  merits  and  demerits  as  a 
statesman.  Written  mostly  from  secondary  sources.  — Literature  of  American  history. 


BURR. 

Parton,  James. 


Life  and  times  of  Aaron  Burr;  enlarged  ed.  with  numerous  appendices, 
containing  new  and  interesting  information.  2 v.  1892.  [With  por- 
trait and  illustrations.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $5.00. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Adds  something  of  real  value  to  our  knowledge  of  Burr,  and  shows  clearly 
that  he  had  been  unjustly  judged  in  many  particulars.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[One  of  the  most  fascinating  biographies  of  a bad  man  ever  written.  Its  pages  are  all  brilliant, 
captivating,  exciting,  and  often  intensely  interesting. 

In  addition  to  its  biographical  interest  it  abounds  in  sketches  of  the  political  and  social  condition 
of  America  in  Burr’s  time.  — New  York  Observer.] 


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CALHOUN. 

Holst,  H.  E.  von. 

John  C.  Calhoun.  1882.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Shows  full  recognition  of  significance  of  movements  of  popular  feeling  which  so  frequently  upset 
the  balance  of  politicians.  Personality  of  Clay  constantly  brought  to  the  front.  — Literature  of 
American  history. 

DOUGLAS. 

Brown,  W.  G. 

Stephen  Arnold  Douglas.  1902.  (Riverside  biographical  series.) 
[With  portrait.  Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Discriminating  sketch  of  Lincoln’s  rival,  faithfully  presenting  his  part  in  compromises  of  1850, 
Kansas-Nebraska  legislation,  disruption  of  democratic  party  in  i860,  and  creation  of  a war  party 
of  northern  democrats  after  secession.  — P.  P.  Wells,  Yale  university  library. 

FRANKLIN. 

Franklin,  Benjamin. 

Autobiography  and  sketch  of  Franklin’s  life  from  the  point  where  the 
autobiography  ends;  drawn  chiefly  from  his  letters;  with  notes  and 
a chronological  historical  table.  1896.  (Riverside  literature  series.) 
$0.40,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.) 

Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr. 

Benjamin  Franklin.  1889.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Ranks  high  among  minor  biographies  of  Franklin.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[Mr.  Morse  writes  of  Franklin,  the  statesman  and  diplomat,  with  a freshness,  fullness,  and  accu- 
racy that  leave  little  to  be  desired.  His  admirable  style  and  literary  skill,  his  thorough  knowledge 
of  history  and  keenness  as  a critic  of  politicians  and  politics,  would  in  any  case  make  his  estimate 
of  Franklin  valuable.  And,  in  this  case,  it  is  especially  valuable,  because  he  has  been  able  to  base 
it  upon  the  very  latest  and  freshest  materials.  — Boston  Advertiser .] 

GALLATIN. 

Stevens,  J.  A. 

Albert  Gallatin.  1883.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

A political  history,  1790-1816.  Chapter  6,  devoted  to  Gallatin’s  administration  of  the  treasury, 
a useful  monograph  on  financial  history  of  the  period.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[Frank,  simple,  and  straightforward.  — New  York  Tribune .] 

HAMILTON. 

Lodge,  H.  C. 

Alexander  Hamilton.  1882.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Brings  into  strong  relief  the  salient  features  of  Hamilton’s  character  and  work.  Few  books  so 
well  adapted  to  kindle  an  intelligent  interest  in  American  history.  — Literature  of  American 
history. 


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HENRY. 

Tyler,  M.  C. 

Patrick  Henry.  1887.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

(Readable.)  May  be  fairly  said  to  reconstruct  the  life  of  Patrick  Henry,  and  to  vindicate  his 
memory  from  the  unappreciative  and  injurious  estimate  which  has  been  placed  on  it.  — Nation. 

HOUSTON. 

Williams,  A.  M. 

Sam  Houston  and  the  war  of  independence  in  Texas.  1893.  [With 
portrait  and  maps.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Bibliography,  p.  397-400. 

Based  on  study  of  Texan  archives,  extensive  knowledge  of  existing  works  on  the  subject,  and 
personal  acquaintance  with  Texans  who  knew  Houston.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

HUTCHINSON. 

Hosmer,  J.  K. 

Life  of  Thomas  Hutchinson.  1896.  [With  portrait.  8vo,  gilt  top.] 

$4.00. 

Contains  extracts  from  Hutchinson’s  unpublished  correspondence.  Value  of  book  enhanced  by 
author’s  frank  recognition  of  the  large  element  of  truth  and  justice  at  basis  of  loyalist  argument. 
— Literature  of  American  history. 

MONROE. 

Gilman,  D.  C. 

James  Monroe  in  his  relations  to  the  public  service  during  half  a century, 
1776  to  1826.  1883.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Short,  simple  account  of  the  most  important  events  in  Monroe’s  life.  Thorough  bibliography 
of  Monroe  and  the  Monroe  doctrine,  p.  553-280,  materially  adds  to  value.  — Literature  of  American 
history. 

MORRIS,  GOUVERNEUR. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore. 

Gouverneur  Morris.  1899.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Outline  sketch,  vivid  enough  to  make  the  man  comprehensible  and  to  offer  a lively  view  of  his 
habits,  tendencies,  deeds  and  thoughts.  Some  new  material  and  many  anecdotes.  — New  York 
tribune. 

STANTON. 

Gorham,  G.  C. 

Life  and  public  services  of  Edwin  M.  Stanton.  2 v.  1899.  [With  por- 
traits and  map.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $6.00. 

SUMNER. 

Storey,  Moorfield. 

Charles  Sumner.  1900.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  .gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 

Summary  of  public  career  and  influence.  — New  York  state  library. 


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[A  very  able  piece  of  work,  intensely  interesting  also  for  its  glimpses  of  the  political  history  of  the 
times,  above  all  the  great  anti-slavery  agitation  with  which  Sumner’s  name,  from  the  moment  of 
his  entering  public  life,  was  inextricably  interwoven.  — Springfield  Republican .] 

WEBSTER. 

Lodge,  H.  C. 

Daniel  Webster.  1892.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.] 

$1.25. 

Appreciative  study  by  a well-informed  scholar.  Points  out  faults  as  well  as  merits.  — Literature 
of  American  history. 

[It  will  be  read  by  students  of  history;  it  will  be  invaluable  as  a work  of  reference;  it  will  be  an 
authority  as  regards  matters  of  fact  and  criticism;  it  hits  the  key-note  of  Webster’s  durable  and 
ever-growing  fame;  it  is  adequate,  calm,  impartial;  it  is  admirable.  — Philadelphia  Press.] 


Lawyers , Judges 

CHASE. 


Hart,  A.  B. 

Salmon  Portland  Chase.  1899.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.25. 

In  three  historic  episodes;  the  western  political  anti-slavery  movement,  the  financial  measures 
of  the  civil  war,  and  the  process  of  judicial  reconstruction.  — W.  D.  Foulke,  in  American  histor- 
ical review. 

DANA. 

Adams,  C.  F.,  Jr. 

Richard  Henry  Dana.  2 v.  1890.  [With  portraits.  i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$4.00. 

[This  work  belongs  in  the  first  rank  of  American  biographies;  it  is  as  remarkable  for  variety 
of  material  as  for  its  interest  and  value.  — Boston  Literary  World.] 

JAY. 

Pellew,  George. 

John  Jay.  1890.  (American  statesmen.)  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Abounds  in  excerpts  from  Jay’s  correspondence,  and  gives  unusually  clear  picture  of  revolu- 
tionary period  and  2 succeeding  decades.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[A  pleasant  picture  of  one  of  the  purest,  most  single-minded,  sincerest,  and  most  sagacious  and 
Christian  statesmen  the  annals  of  the  Republic  can  show.  ...  It  elevates  yet  higher  the  character 
of  a man  whom  all  American  patriots  must  delight*to  honor.  — New  York  Tribune.] 

MARSHALL. 

Thayer,  J.  B. 

John  Marshall.  1901.  (Riverside  biographical  series.)  [With  por- 
trait. Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  6 cents.] 

Brief,  giving  clear  picture  of  Marshall’s  personal  traits  and  criticisms  of  his  constitutional  doc- 
trines. — P.  P.  Wells,  Yale  University  library. 

[Judge  Marshall  deserves  the  reverential  homage  which  attaches  to  him.  The  simplest  possible 
narration  of  the  incidents  of  the  life  and  the  official  trusts  and  services  of  his  subject  serves  for  fame 
and  unfading  honor.  We  have  this  in  the  book  now  in  our  hands.  It  is  written  in  a spirit  of 
admiring  love  and  with  a calm  dignity  of  tone  and  style.  . . . The  portraiture  of  the  private  life, 
the  domestic  character,  the  purity,  the  simplicity  of  habit,  and  the  even  childlike  graces  of  this  wise, 


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great,  and  good  man,  is  most  felicitously  drawn  in  these  pages.  The  reader  closes  the  book  with  a 
deep  sense  of  obligation  to  its  author. — Rev.  Dr.  George  E.  Ellis,  President  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society .] 


Military  and  Naval 

Individual 
JOAN  OF  ARC. 

Lowell,  F.  C. 

Joan  of  Arc.  1896.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Distinctly  the  best  thing  in  the  English  language  on  the  life  and  career  of  the  Maid  of  Orleans.  — 
H.  Morse  Stephens. 

Based  on  latest  French  authorities.  — New  York  state  library. 


United  States 

Individual 

PERRY,  M.  C. 

Griffis,  W.  E. 

Matthew  Calbraith  Perry.  1887.  [With  portrait  and  illustrations. 

Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Philanthropists 

COOPER. 

Raymond,  R.  W. 

Peter  Cooper.  1901.  (Riverside  biographical  series.)  [With  portrait. 

Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  6 cents.] 

Outlines  of  a life  of  singular  simplicity  and  earnestness  of  purpose  to  enlarge  opportunities  of 
workmen.  — New  York  state  library. 

GARRISON. 

Garrison,  W.  P.  and  F.  J. 

William  Lloyd  Garrison,  1805-1879;  by  his  children.  4 v.  1894. 

[With  portraits.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $8.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Possibly  too  expensive  for  many  libraries,  but  as  the  authoritative  life,  must  be  mentioned.  — 
Editor  for  selection. 

Full  biography,  written  with  the  reverential  admiration  of  children  rather  than  from  the  point 
of  view  of  a dispassionate  and  critical  historian;  also  virtually  a history  of  the  anti-slavery  struggle. 
— English  historical  review. 

[Apart  from  the  intrinsic  interest  of  the  narrative,  the  work  is  one  of  great  literary  art.  The 
biographers  give  copious  references  to  every  phase  of  the  great  conflict  which  their  father  incarnated. 
The  two  sets  of  notes,  at  the  foot  and  at  the  sides  of  the  page,  form  indexes  to  the  files  of  the  Liber- 
ator, and  to  the  literature  of  the  day,  with  its  favorable  and  unfavorable  references  to  Garrison.  . . . 
The  index  to  the  four  volumes  is  a model  of  wbat  an  index  ought  to  be.  It  comprises  seventy-six 
pages,  in  several  kinds  of  type,  and  is  in  itself  full  of  biographical  and  other  useful  information 
which  will  save  the  opening  of  many  reference  books.  The  completed  work  is  at  once  a biography, 
an  autobiography,  a history,  and  an  encyclopaedia  of  the  anti-slavery  movement,  written  with 
astonishing  grasp  of  the  whole  range  of  facts  in  the  case,  and  in  a spirit  of  candor  that  is  as  rare 
as  it  is  desirable.  — The  Critic  (New  York).] 


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Business  men 

HARRIS. 

Griffis,  W.  E. 

Townsend  Harris,  first  American  envoy  in  Japan.  1895.  [With  por- 
trait. Crown  8 vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Explorers , Travelers 

Individual 

CHAMPLAIN. 

Sedgwick,  H.  D. 

Samuel  de  Champlain.  1902.  (Riverside  biographical  series.)  [With 
portrait.  Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  6 cents.] 

(For  young  readers.  Readable.)  Champlain’s  life  and  surroundings  in  France  dwelt  on  at 
unusual  length  and  nobility  of  his  character  well  presented.  — P.  P.  Wells,  Yale  University  library. 

925  Science 

Individual 

AGASSIZ. 

Agassiz,  Mrs.  E.  C.  (Cary). 

Louis  Agassiz;  his  life  and  correspondence.  1893.  [With  portraits 
and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

Early  life  in  Switzerland,  friendships  with  Cuvier,  Humboldt,  and  other  distinguished  scientists; 
scientific  work,  particularly  in  geology  and  ichthyology,  and  work  at  Harvard,  including  founding 
of  Agassiz  museum.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

[In  a letter  to  his  father,  dated  Munich,  1829,  Agassiz  wrote:  “I  wish  it  may  be  said  of  Louis 
Agassiz  that  he  was  the  first  naturalist  of  his  time,  a good  citizen  and  a good  son,  beloved  of  those 
who  knew  him.”  Here  is  the  self -proposed  standard  of  a life  which,  closing  forty -four  years  later, 
might  have  been  summed  up  in  these  very  words.  Of  this  fruitful,  wholly  unselfish  career  Mrs. 
Agassiz  has  given  us  a vivid  picture.  So  far  as  possible,  she  allows  her  story  to  tell  itself  in  selec- 
tions from  Agassiz’s  letters,  which  at  once  bring  the  reader  into  actual  contact  with  the  fervid  and 
genuine  personality  of  the  man.  The  story  of  an  intellectual  life  marked  by  such  rare  coherency 
and  unity  of  aim  will  surely  serve  as  a stimulus  and  an  encouragement  to  others.  — Christian  Union 
(New  York). 

No  one  can  read  the  book  without  being  stimulated,  elevated,  purified. — Prof.  Joseph  LeConte.] 

NEWCOMB. 

Newcomb,  Simon. 

Reminiscences  of  an  astronomer.  1903.  [With  portrait.  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $2.50,  net.  [Postage,  17  cents.] 

Contributes  much  that  is  valuable  to  history  of  astronomic  progress  during  his  lifetime.  — 
Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

926  Useful  arts 

Individual 

EADS. 

How,  Louis. 

James  B.  Eads.  1900.  (Riverside  biographical  series.)  [With  por- 
trait. Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  6 cents.] 


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927  Fine  arts 

Artists 

Collective 

Jameson,  Mrs.  A.  B.  (Murphy). 

Memoirs  of  the  early  Italian  painters;  revised  by  E.  M.  Hurll.  1899. 
[Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

From  Cimabue  to  Paul  Veronese.  — Sargent,  Reading  jor  the  young. 

Shedd,  Mrs.  J.  A.  (Clark). 

Famous  painters  and  paintings;  4th  ed.  revised,  illustrated  with  designs 
after  works  by  Raphael,  Coreggip,  Titian,  and  other  masters.  1900. 
[Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Popular  treatment.)  Catalogue  of  important  paintings  and  their  location,  p.  309-334. 
Discussion  of  the  merits  and  peculiarities  of  these  men  and  the  circumstances  of  their  times.  — 
Sturgis  & Krehbiel,  Annotated  bibliography  oj  -fine  art. 

Famous  sculptors  and  sculpture.  Revised  ed.  1896.  [Illus- 
trated. Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Companion  volume  to  Painters  and  paintings.  — Sturgis  & Krehbiel,  Annotated  bibliography 
oj  fine  art. 

Waters,  Mrs.  Clara  (Erskine)  Clement. 

Painters,  sculptors,  architects,  engravers,  and  their  works.  1901. 
[Illustrated.  i2mo.]  $3.00. 

Waters,  Mrs.  Clara  (Erskine)  Clement,  and  Hutton,  Laurence. 

Artists  of  the  nineteenth  century  and  their  works.  3d  ed.  1885. 
[i2mo.]  $3.00. 

More  than  2000  brief  biographies,  followed  by  critical  quotations.  Aims  to  present  artists  of 
prominence,  rather  than  to  include  all  those  of  the  .century.  — A.  B.  Kroeger,  Guide  to  the  study  oj 
rejerence  books. 

[We  have  tested  its  accuracy  and  completeness  in  many  ways,  and  are  prepared  to  say  that  it  is 
the  most  valuable  book  of  its  kind,  in  the  English  language  at  least.  In  England  it  is  already  as 
much  a standard  work  as  it  has  become  in  the  United  States.  It  should  be  owned  by  every  art  club, 
if  not  every  art  student,  in  the  country.  — Art  Amateur  (New  York).] 

Individual 

ELIOT. 

Eliot,  C.  W. 

Charles  Eliot,  landscape  architect,  a lover  of  nature  and  of  his  kind, 
who  trained  himself  for  a new  profession,  practiced  it  happily,  and 
through  it  wrought  much  good.  1902.  [With  portraits  and  illustra- 
tions. 8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.50,  net.  [Postage,  29  cents.] 

STORY. 

James,  Henry. 

William  Wetmore  Story  and  his  friends,  from  letters,  diaries,  and  recol- 
lections. 2 v.  1903.  [With  portraits.  Crown  8vo.]  $6.00,  net.  [Post- 
age, 18  cents.] 


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Of  much  literary  interest  not  only  from  the  subject,  but  its  handling.  Includes  letters  of 
Browning,  Lowell,  Story,  and  Charles  Sumner,  and  glimpses  of  many  other  authors  and  notable 
people.  — New  York  state  library. 

928  Literature 
Collective 
Adams,  O.  F. 

Dictionary  of  American  authors.  4th  ed.  1901.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $3.50. 

(Readable.)  Greatly  enlarged  edition  of  his  Handbook  oj  American  authors.  Gives  6000  names, 
with  dates,  titles  of  books,  and  exceedingly  compact  biographic  and  critical  notes.  — New  York 
state  library. 

[Mr.  Adams’s  book  fills  a long-felt  want.  — Nation  (New  York).] 

Fields,  J.  T. 

Yesterdays  with  authors;  illustrated  with  photogravure  portraits  and 
autograph  letters.  1900.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

The  Boston  publisher’s  personal  reminiscences  of  Thackeray,  Hawthorne,  Dickens,  Wordsworth, 
Miss  Mitford,  and  Barry  Cornwall.  — New  York  state  library. 

[It  offers  a rare  charm  to  the  lovers  of  literary  anecdote,  and  in  many  considerable  portions 
possesses  an  interest  no  less  enticing  than  the  naive  recitals  of  Boswell  or  the  pleasant  recollections 
of  Crabb  Robinson. — New  York  Tribune.'] 

Individual 

BROWNING. 

Orr,  Mrs.  Alexandra  (Leighton). 

Life  and  letters  of  Robert  Browning.  1900.  [With  portrait.  Crown 
8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Authorized  by  the  poet’s  family.  — Critic. 

[A  biography  of  the  very  first  importance,  and  withal  a work  that  for  readableness  and  the  admir- 
able discretion  shown  in  the  choice  and  arrangement  of  material  has  hardly  a rival  among  contem- 
porary memoirs.  — Boston  Beacon.] 

BRYANT. 

Bigelow,  John. 

William  Cullen  Bryant.  1890.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With 
portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

[There  were  many  aspects  in  which  Mr.  Bryant  presented  himself  as  a subject  for  biography.  He 
was  a chief  in  the  department  of  American  journalism.  He  was  a controlling  power  in  American 
politics.  He  was  also  a man  of  letters  in  the  pure  and  simple  sense  of  the  term.  One  might  have 
known  him  well  in  either  of  these  relations  and  yet  had  no  thought  of  the  others.  Mr.  Bigelow 
has,  it  seems  to  us,  done  justice  to  all.  — The  Churchman  (New  York).] 

BUNYAN. 

Brown,  John. 

John  Bunyan;  his  life,  times,  and  work;  illustrated  by  Whymper. 
3d  ed.  1888.  [8vo.]  $2.50. 

Chronologic  list  of  Bunyan’s  works,  p.  483-488. 

Carlyle,  Thomas,  and  Emerson,  R.  W. 

Correspondence,  1834-1872.  2 v.  1884.  [With  portraits.  Crown 

8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 


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A nearly  complete  record  of  their  friendship.  Its  special  charm  lies  in  its  being  human  rather  than 
literary.  — G.  E.  Woodberry,  in  Atlantic  monthly. 

COOPER. 

Lounsbury,  T.  R. 

James  Fenimore  Cooper.  1883.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With 
portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Partial  bibliography  of  Cooper’s  writings,  p.  290-299. 

Admirable  study  of  Cooper’s  work  in  light  of  his  life  and  character.  — New  York  state  library. 

[We  have  here  a model  biography.  The  book  is  charmingly  written,  with  a felicity  and  vigor  of 
diction  that  are  notable,  and  with  a humor  sparkling,  racy,  and  never  obtrusive.  — New  York 
Tribune. 

Prof.  Lounsbury’s  book  is  an  admirable  specimen  of  literary  biography.  . . . We  can  recall  no 
recent  addition  to  American  biography  in  any  department  which  is  superior  to  it.  — New  York 
Evening  Post.] 

CORNEILLE. 

Vincent,  L.  H. 

Corneille.  1901.  (Brief  studies  in  French  society.)  [i8mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.00. 

Bibliographic  note,  p.  193-198 

CURTIS. 

Cary,  Edward. 

George  William  Curtis.  1894.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With 
portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Straightforward  and  satisfactory  biography  by  one  who  knew  Curtis  well.  — Literature  of  Ameri- 
can history. 

EDGEWORTH. 

Edgeworth,  Maria. 

Life  and  letters,  edited  by  A.  J.  C.  Hare.  2 v.  1895.  [Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Valuable  for  their  light  on  an  honest,  generous,  high-minded  character,  and  as  a record  of  her 
times  and  of  many  prominent  persons.  — New  York  sun. 

EMERSON. 

Cabot,  J.  E. 

Memoir  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.  2 v.  1887.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$3.5°. 

Chronologic  list  of  lectures  and  addresses,  p.  710-803. 

Authorized  biography.  — Nation. 

[Interesting  as  this  memoir  proves  itself  in  its  details  of  Emerson’s  life  and  habits  and  daily  sur- 
roundings, its  chief  attraction  lies  in  the  light  which  it  throws  upon  Emerson’s  writings,  his  aims, 
and  his  way  of  thought.  — New  York  Evening  Post.] 

Emerson,  R.  W.,  and  Grimm,  Hermann. 

Correspondence;  edited  by  F.  W.  Holls.  1903.  [i6mo,  parchment 
paper,  gilt  top.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postage,  5 cents.] 

Reprinted,  with  the  exception  of  the  original  German  letters,  from  Atlantic  monthly,  April,  1903. 


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Holmes,  O.  W. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  and  John  Lothrop  Motley;  two  memoirs.  1898. 
(Riverside  edition.)  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

[The  selection  of  extracts  has  been  made  with  care  and  judgment.  Partly  from  these,  partly  from 
Dr.  Holmes’s  commentary,  the  earnest  reader  will  be  sure  to  see,  in  its  full  beauty,  the  truth,  purity, 
and  courage  of  Emerson’s  life,  and  the  high  dignity  of  his  mind.  — Boston  Advertiser .] 

FIELDS. 

Fields,  Mrs.  Annie  (Adams),  editor. 

James  T.  Fields;  biographical  notes  and  personal  sketches,  with  unpub- 
lished fragments  and  tributes  from  men  and  women  of  letters.  1881. 
[8 vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

HAWTHORNE. 

Hawthorne,  Julian. 

Nathaniel  Hawthorne  and  his  wife.  2 v.  1885.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$4.00. 

The  standard  life,  by  his  son;  called  by  Richardson  the  best  biography  written  in  America.  — 
W.  Dawson  Johnston,  Library  of  Congress. 

Lathrop,  Mrs.  Rose  (Hawthorne). 

Memoirs  of  Hawthorne.  1897.  [With  portrait.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$2.00. 

Largely  composed  of  original  letters  of  Hawthorne  and  his  wife.  — Providence  -public  library 
monthly  bulletin. 

Woodberry,  G.  E. 

Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  1902.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With  por- 
trait. i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.10,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

Most  valuable  as  an  appreciative  criticism  of  his  writings.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

HIGGINSON. 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Cheerful  yesterdays.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Originally  contributed  to  Atlantic  monthly. 

Contents:  A Cambridge  boyhood;  A child  of  the  college;  The  period  of  the  newness;  The 
rearing  of  a reformer;  Fugitive  slave  epoch;  Birth  of  a literature;  Kansas  and  John  Brown;  Civil 
war;  Literary  London  20  years  ago;  Literary  Paris  20  years  ago;  On  the  outskirts  of  public  life; 
Epilogue. 

Personal  reminiscences;  history  in  its  social  setting.  — Nation. 

Reprinted  from  Atlantic  monthly , with  slight  additions. 

HOLMES. 

Morse,  J.  T.,  Jr. 

Life  and  letters  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  2 v.  1897.  [With  por- 
traits and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Such  letters  as  no  one  else  could  have  written,  full  of  wit,  humor,  and  intimate  revelations.  — 
Bookman. 


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IRVING. 

Boynton,  H.  W. 

Washington  Irving.  1901.  (Riverside  biographical  series.)  [With 
portrait.  Small  i6mo.]  $0.65,  net.  [Postage,  6 cents.] 

Warner,  C.  D. 

Washington  Irving.  1881.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With  por- 
trait. i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Contains  discriminating  characterization  of  his  works.  — Boston  journal. 

[Mr.  Warner  has  written  with  sympathy,  minute  knowledge  of  his  subject,  fine  literary  taste, 
and  that  easy,  fascinating  style  which  always  puts  him  on  such  good  terms  with  his  readers.  — New 
York  Tribune .] 

LARCOM. 

Addison,  D.  D. 

Lucy  Larcom:  life,  letters,  and  diary.  1894.  [With  portrait.  i6mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Larcom,  Lucy. 

A New  England  girlhood,  outlined  from  memory.  1889.  (Riverside 
library  for  young  people.  [i6mo.]  $0.75. 

New  England  poet’s  recollections  of  her  childhood  in  a sea-coast  village  and  her  young  woman- 
hood in  a Lowell  factory.  Interesting  contribution  to  New  England  social  history.  — New  York 
state  library. 

LONGFELLOW. 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow.  1902.  (American  men  of  letters.) 
[With  portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.10,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

Bibliography,  p.  303-316. 

Rich  in  personal  recollections  and  knowledge  of  Longfellow’s  Cambridge  environment.  — New 
York  state  library. 

Longfellow,  Samuel,  editor. 

Life  of  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow,  with  extracts  from  his  journals 
and  correspondence.  3 v.  1891.  [With  portraits  and  illustrations. 
Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $6.00. 

Bibliography,  3:  p.  427-441- 

[Indeed,  the  life  of  the  poet,  and  it  will  take  its  place  side  by  side  with  the  standard  Boswells  of 
literature.  What  Boswell  did  for  Johnson,  this  painstaking  clergyman  has  done  for  his  famous 
brother.  Back  of  every  line  one  is  charmed  to  note  the  touch  of  a hand  made  tender  by  mellow 
memories.  — Philadelphia  Press.] 

LOWELL. 

Hale,  E.  E. 

James  Russell  Lowell  and  his  friends.  1899.  [With  portraits  and 
illustrations.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.00. 

Genial  personal  reminiscences,  admirably  supplementing  more  formal  biography.  Valuable 
picture  of  literary  conditions  in  New  England  from  Lowell’s  youth.  Illustrated. — New  York 
state  library. 


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Scudder,  H.  E. 

James  Russell  Lowell.  2 v.  1901.  [With  portraits  and  illustrations. 
Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $3.50,  net.  [Postage,  30  cents.] 

Writings  of  Lowell,  2:  p.  421-445. 

Authorized  biography,  complementing  Lowell’s  Letters.  — New  York  state  library. 

MARTINEAU. 

Martineau,  Harriet. 

Autobiography;  edited  by  M.  W.  Chapman.  2 v.  1877.  [Crown  8vo. 
gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

V.  2 includes  (p.  131-596)  Memorials  of  Harriet  Martineau,  by  M.  W.  Chapman. 

Among  the  innumerable  pictures  of  London  literary  society  Miss  Martineau’s  series  of  portraits 
will  stand  unrivaled.  — T.  W.  Higginson. 

[Her  work  is  so  far  the  best  of  its  kind  that  no  other  autobiographer  deserves  to  be  named  as  even 
second  to  her.  — New  York  Evening  Post .] 

MOTLEY. 

Holmes,  O.  W. 

John  Lothrop  Motley.  1898.  [i6mo.]  $1.50. 

OSSOLI. 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Margaret  Fuller  Ossoli.  1884.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With 
portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Bibliographic  appendix,  p.  315-318. 

[Here  at  last  we  have  a biography  of  one  of  the  noblest  and  the  most  intellectual  of  American 
women,  which  does  full  justice  to  its  subject.  The  author  has  had  ample  material  for  his  work,  — 
all  the  material  now  available,  perhaps,  — and  has  shown  the  skill  of  a master  in  his  use  of  it.  . . . 
It  is  a fresh  view  of  the  subject.  — Boston  Advertiser .] 

POE. 

Woodberry,  G.  E. 

Edgar  Allan  Poe.  1885.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With  portrait. 
i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

[Mr.  Woodberry  has  contrived  with  vast  labor  to  construct  what  must  hereafter  be  called  the 
authoritative  biography  of  Poe,  a biography  which  corrects  all  others,  supplements  all  others,  and 
supersedes  all  others.  — The  Critic  (New  York).] 

RUSKIN. 

Collingwood,  W.  G. 

Life  of  John  Ruskin.  2d  ed.  1900.  [With  portrait.  Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $2.00,  net.  [Postage,  15  cents.] 

Bibliography,  p.  409-421. 

Life  and  work  of  John  Ruskin , 2 v.  1893,  rewritten  on  somewhat  different  lines.  Adds  new  bio- 
graphic detail  and  letters  hitherto  unpublished.  — Publishers ’ weekly. 

SCOTT. 

Lockhart,  J.  G. 

Memoirs  of  the  life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott;  edited  by  S.  M.  Francis.  5 v. 
1902.  (Cambridge  edition.)  [With  frontispieces.  Large  crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $10.00. 


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Biographic  sketch  of  Lockhart,  i:  pref.  p.  13-36. 

The  most  important  biography  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Victoria.  — Shorter. 

[Executed  with  so  much  skill,  and  in  so  admirable  a manner,  that,  next  to  Boswell’s  Life  of  John- 
son, it  will  probably  always  be  considered  as  the  most  interesting  work  of  biography  in  the  English 
language.  — Alison,  History  of  Europe. 

One  of  the  most  delightful  books  in  the  language.  — George  S.  Hillard.] 

Scott,  Sir  Walter,  hart. 

Familiar  letters;  edited  by  David  Douglas.  2 v.  1894.  [With  por- 
trait. 8vo,  gilt  top.]  $6.00. 

STERLING. 

Sterling,  John,  and  Emerson,  R.  W. 

Correspondence;  with  a sketch  of  Sterling’s  life  by  E.  W.  Emerson. 

1897.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.00. 

STOWE. 

Fields,  Mrs.  Annie  (Adams),  editor. 

Life  and  letters  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe.  1897.  [With  portrait. 

i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Account  of  her  early  life  as  she  told  it  to  her  son;  facts  of  her  later  history  mainly  from  very 
frank  and  detailed  letters  to  her  friends.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

THAXTER. 

Thaxter,  Mrs.  Celia  (Laighton). 

Letters;  edited  by  her  friends  A.  F.  and  R.  L.  1895.  [With  portraits. 

i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Written  from  1856-94.  Pleasant  picture  of  a quiet,  sea-island  life,  full  of  generous  activities 
and  individual  flavors.  — New  York  state  library. 

THOREAU. 

Thoreau,  H.  D. 

Familiar  letters;  edited  with  introduction  and  notes  by  F.  B.  Sanborn. 

1896.  (Riverside  edition.)  [With  portrait.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 

$1.50. 

TICKNOR. 

Ticknor,  George. 

Life,  letters  and  journals.  12th  ed.  2 v.  1876.  [With  portraits. 

Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Full  of  anecdotes  and  narratives  of  conversation,  of  descriptions  of  remarkable  men  and  women, 
and  of  unusual  personal  experience.  — Nation. 

[The  broad,  general  impression  left  by  the  Life,  Letters,  and  Journals  of  George  T icknor  is  admira- 
tion blended  with  surprise  at  the  number,  variety,  and  select  character  of  his  friends  and  corre- 
spondents as  well  as  the  wide  range  of  his  attainments.  ...  It  was  his  fortunate  lot  to  have  known 
the  notabilities  of  three  generations  in  Great  Britain,  France,  Germany,  Italy,  Portugal,  and  Spain; 
to  have  lived  intimately  or  conversed  familiarly  with  Byron,  Scott,  Southey,  Wordsworth,  Moore, 
Campbell,  Rogers,  Sydney  Smith,  Hallam,  Malthus,  Mackintosh,  Jeffrey,  Lewis,  and  Macaulay; 
with  Benjamin  Constant  and  Madame  de  Stael,  Chateaubriand  and  Madame  Recamier;  with 
Guizot,  Thiers,  Tocqueville,  and  Lamartine;  with  Goethe,  the  Schlegels,  Tieck,  Blumenbach, 
Savigny,  William  and  Alexander  von  Humboldt,  Niebuhr,  and  Voss;  with  Manzoni,  Pellico,  and 
Niccolini;  with  Pozzo  di  Borgo,  Ancillon,  Mettemich,  Antonelli,  and  Cavour.  — Quarterly  Review 
(London).] 


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TROWBRIDGE. 

Trowbridge,  J.  T. 

My  own  story,  with  recollections  of  noted  persons.  1903.  [With  por- 
traits and  illustrations.  Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50,  net.  [Post- 
age, 18  cents.] 

Reminiscences  of  long  literary  career  and  of  acquaintance  with  many  distinguished  people, 
mainly  New  Englanders.  Written  in  his  76th  year.  — New  York  state  library. 

WARD. 

Ward,  Mrs.  E.  S.  (Phelps). 

Chapters  from  a life.  1896.  [With  portraits  and  illustrations.  i2mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.50. 

Record  of  life  at  Andover,  Boston,  and  Gloucester,  strongly  colored  by  author’s  personality. 
Many  notes  on  interesting  people.  — New  York  state  library. 

WHITMAN. 

Burroughs,  John. 

Whitman;  a study.  1896.  [i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Enthusiastic  appreciation.  — New  York  state  library. 

WHITTIER. 

Carpenter,  G.  R. 

John  Greenleaf  Whittier.  1903.  (American  men  of  letters.)  [With 
portrait.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.10,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

List  of  Whittier’s  writings,  p.  304-307. 

Contributes  some  new  material  and  emphasizes  political  and  reformatory  aspects  of  his  life 
more  than  literary.  — New  York  state  library. 

Pickard,  S.  T. 

Life  and  letters  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier.  2 v.  1894.  [With  por- 
traits and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Bibliography,  p.  786-790. 

The  standard  biography.  — W.  Dawson  Johnston,  Library  of  Congress. 

940  EUROPE 

Gray,  G.  Z. 

The  children’s  crusade.  1898.  [With  illustration.  i2mo.]  $1.50. 

Chronicles,  etc.  consulted  and  quoted,  pref.  p.  13-15. 

Well-studied,  valuable  account.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

942  England 

Dickens,  Charles. 

Child’s  history  of  England;  illustrated  from  photographs  by  Clifton 
Johnson.  1898.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  From  Roman  conquest,  B.  c.  50,  to  accession  of  William  and  Mary,  a.  d. 
1688,  with  chapter  on  succeeding  reigns.  — New  York  state  library. 


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Lamed,  J.  N. 

History  of  England  for  the  use  of  schools  and  academies,  with  topical 
analyses,  research  questions  and  bibliographical  notes  by  H.  P.  Lewis. 
1900.  [With  maps  and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo,  half  leather.]  $1.25, 
net.  [Postpaid.] 

[We  must  give  Mr.  Larned’s  History  of  England  warm  praise,  and  not  the  least  because  it 
explains  the  true  historical  connection  between  England  and  the  United  States.  — Nation  (New 
York).] 

Tappan,  E.  M. 

England’s  story ; a history  for  grammar  and  high  schools.  1901.  [With 
maps  and  illustrations.  12 mo.]  $0.85,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Clear  and  concise,  with  well-chosen  maps  and  illustrations.  — American 
Unitarian  association. 

943  Germany  and  Austria 

943.1  Prussia  and  northern  Germany 

Tuttle,  Herbert. 

History  of  Prussia.  4 V.  1884-96.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $8.25. 

Contents:  v.  i,  To  accession  of  Frederic  the  Great,  1134-1740.  V.  2-4,  Under  Frederic  the 
Great,  1740-1757. 

Biographic  sketch  of  Herbert  Tuttle,  by  H.  B.  Adams,  v.  4,  pref.  p.  11-43;  bibliography  of 
writings  of  H.  Tuttle,  v.  4,  pref.  p.  45-46.  Work  uncompleted  at  author’s  death. 

With  extraordinary  skill  and  sure,  critical  eye,  Prof.  Tuttle  sifts  the  fearful  mass  of  material  and 
shapes  it  in  a clear  and  luminous  manner.  — Deutsche  revue. 

944  France 

Lowell,  E.  J. 

Eve  of  the  French  revolution.  1900.  [Crowm  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

A penetrating  and  comprehensive  view  of  the  ante-revolutionary  situation.  — Literary  world. 

[We  find  his  book  to  be  as  thorough  as  it  is  readable.  ...  A better  exposition  of  the  proximate 
causes  of  the  Revolution,  and  a more  trustworthy  account  of  the  political  and  social  institutions  of 
the  age  that  precede  it,  need  not  be  desired.  — Examiner  (New  York).] 

Perkins,  J.  B. 

France  under  Louis  XV.  2 v.  1897.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  1723-1774. 

France  under  the  regency,  with  a review  of  the  administration  of  Louis  XIV;  defends  king 
and  duke  of  Orleans.  — New  York  state  library. 

[He  is  to  be  praised  for  having  produced  a work  on  a period  of  French  history  comparatively 
obscure  to  English  readers,  of  the  highest  degree  of  readableness,  and  bearing  every  mark  of  thor- 
ough investigation  and  candid  temper.  His  characterizations  of  Louis  XV,  of  Fouquet,  of  Colbert 
the  great  Minister  of  Finance,  of  Cardinal  Dubois  and  the  Regent  are  admirable  delineations.  — 
The  Literary  World  (Boston).] 

945  Italy 

Thayer,  W.  R. 

Dawn  of  Italian  independence;  Italy  from  the  congress  of  Vienna,  1814, 
to  the  fall  of  Venice,  1849.  2 v.  1893.  [With  maps.  Crown  8vo.] 

$4.00. 


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[To  trace  at  once  the  inward  growth  of  the  sentiment  of  Italian  nationality,  and  the  outward 
fortunes  of  the  movement  for  unity  and  independence,  through  the  dark  period  from  the  Congress 
of  Vienna  to  the  capture  of  Venice  by  Radetsky,  — that  is  the  aim  which  Mr.  Thayer  steadily  fol- 
lows through  the  two  volumes  of  his  history.  ...  He  has  brought  to  his  task  great  industry  and 
patience,  no  small  degree  of  political  insight,  and  an  exceptionally  wide  knowledge  of  Italian  history 
and  literature.  — The  Spectator  (London).] 

948  Norway,  Sweden  and  Denmark 

Sweden 

Voltaire,  F.  M.  A.  de. 

History  of  Charles  XII;  edited  by  O.  W.  Wight.  1887.  [i2mo.]  $2.25. 

Contains  a life  of  Voltaire  by  Lord  Brougham  and  critical  notices  of  Lord  Macaulay  and  Thomas 
Carlyle.  — Title. 

One  of  the  most  delightful  of  Voltaire’s  books.  — John  Morley. 

949.2  Netherlands 

Griffis,  W.  E. 

Brave  little  Holland  and  what  she  taught  us.  1894.  [Illustrated. 
i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

(For  young  readers.)  Chief  aim  is  to  show  influence  on  colonial,  revolutionary,  and  constitu- 
tional founders  of  American  order  and  liberty.  — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

Young  people’s  history  of  Holland.  1903.  [Illustrated.  i2mo.] 
$1.50,  net.  [Postage,  14  cents.] 

(For  young  readers.)  From  prehistoric  times  to  marriage  of  Queen  Wilhelmina;  nearly  half 
given  to  history  before  16th  century.  — New  York  state  library. 

970  NORTH  AMERICA 

973  United  States  and  Territories 

Adams,  C.  F.,  Jr. 

Lee  at  Appomattox,  and  other  papers.  1902.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.50,  net.  [Postage,  15  cents.] 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Contents:  Lee  at  Appomattox;  The  treaty  of  Washing- 
ton: before  and  after;  The  British  “change  of  heart;”  An  undeveloped  function;  A plea  for  mili- 
tary history. 

Fiske,  John. 

History  of  the  United  States  for  schools;  with  topical  analysis,  sugges- 
tive questions,  and  directions  for  teachers,  by  F.  A.  Hill.  1899.  [With 
illustrations  and  maps.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  From  earliest  times  to  1894.  Excellent  outline  for  schools,  with  brief 
suggestions  for  collateral  reading  and  questions.  — New  York  state  library. 

Lamed,  J.  N. 

History  of  the  United  States  for  secondary  schools.  1903.  [Crown  8vo, 
half  leather.]  $1.40,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

List  of  works  referred  to,  pref.  p.  13-30. 

Semple,  E.  C. 

American  history  and  its  geographic  conditions.  1903.  [With  maps 
and  charts.  8vo.]  $3.00,  net.  [Postage,  20  cents.] 


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Bibliography,  p.  463-466. 

Study  of  the  dominant  influences  of  geographic  conditions  on  successive  events  of  American  his- 
tory and  on  the  great  factors  of  progress,  railroads,  immigration,  distribution  of  cities,  etc.  1 1 maps. 
— New  York  state  library. 


Tappan,  E.  M. 

Our  country’s  story.  1902.  [Illustrated.  Sq.  i2mo.]  $0.65,  net. 
[Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.)  Elementary.  Style  has  unusual  life  and  appeal  to  child’s  interest.  Well 
illustrated.  — New  York  state  library. 


Winsor,  Justin,  editor. 

Narrative  and  critical  history 
fusely  illustrated.  Royal  8vo.] 


of  America.  8 v.  1884-89. 
Subscription,  $44.00,  net. 


[Pro- 


(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Critical  essays  by  different  writers  covering  American 
history  in  detail  to  adoption  of  constitution  and  briefly  to  about  1850.  Most  valuable  parts  are 
critical  essays  on  sources  and  Mr.  Winsor’s  notes.  Rich  in  fac-similes  of  maps,  historical  illustra- 
tions and  portraits.  — Literature  of  American  history. 


[We  were  scarcely  prepared  for  the  wonderful  completeness  of  the  knowledge  displayed  in  these 
pages.  . . . The  maps  are  of  immense  value  and  interest.  In  common  with  the  rest  of  the  illus- 
trations, they  are  exquisitely  reproduced.  — Saturday  Review  (London). 

In  scope  and  method  the  greatest  contribution  that  has  been  made  to  the  literature  of  our  history. 
— The  Nation  (New  York).] 


973.1  Discovery 

Fiske,  John. 

Discovery  of  America,  with  some  account  of  ancient  America  and 

the  Spanish  conquest.  2 v.  1899.  [With  maps  and  illustrations. 

Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

(Readable.)  Characterized  by  thorough  scholarship,  well-balanced  judgment,  and  literary 
charm.  Distinctive  feature  is  application  of  theory  of  evolution  to  explain  features  of  primitive 
culture  in  America.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[In  this  book  he  is  at  his  best.  He  often  philosophizes,  and  he  does  so  effectively;  he  subjects 
historical  theories  to  a rigid  scrutiny,  and  his  remarks  are  as  acute  as  his  conclusions  are  acceptable; 
and  he  exhibits  an  unselfish  appreciation  of  his  forerunners.  — London  Athenceum. 

Its  erudition  is  remarkable,  its  scope  great,  its  style  admirably  lucid,  vigorous,  and  on  occasion 
picturesque.  It  is  a most  important  resume  of  the  whole  subject.  It  is  well  furnished  with  maps, 
fac-similes,  etc.  Founded  upon  original  documents  throughout,  its  trustworthiness  is  not  to  be 
doubted.  It  is,  in  short,  a sterling  piece  of  work  from  beginning  to  end.  — New  York  Tribune .] 

Winsor,  Justin. 

Cartier  to  Frontenac.  1894.  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Geographic  discovery  in  interior  of  North  America 
in  its  historical  relations,  1534-1700.  — Title. 


973.2  Colonial 

Fiske,  John. 

New  France  and  New  England.  1902.  [With  maps  and  illustrations. 
Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $1.65,  net.  [Postage,  16  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Fills  gap  in  his  American  history  series  from  discovery  to  1789.  Treats  Canadian 
development,  Salem  witchcraft,  Norridgewock  and  Louisburg,  the  French  and  Indian  war.  — New 
York  state  library. 

Old  Virginia  and  her  neighbours.  2 v.  1897.  [With  maps  and  illus- 
trations. Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 


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(Readable.)  Virginia,  Maryland,  Carolina  and  Georgia  from  first  settlements  to  1753.  Come 
between  his  Discovery  of  America  and  Beginnings  of  New  England.  — New  York  state  library. 

973*3  Revolution  and  conjederation 
Fiske,  John. 

American  revolution.  2 v.  1899.  [With  maps  and  illustrations. 
Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

(Readable.)  The  best  history  that  we  possess  of  the  war,  looked  at  both  from  a political  and  a 
military  point  of  view.  — J.  A.  Doyle,  in  English  historical  review. 

Critical  period  of  American  history,  1783-1789.  1899.  [With  maps 

and  illustrations.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Readable.)  State  of  country  at  close  of  revolution,  development  of  states  and  westward  expan- 
sion, imperfect  working  and  gradual  breakdown  of  articles  of  confederation,  and  formation  and 
adoption  of  constitution.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

Compact,  straightforward  and  trustworthy  study  of  the  seven  years  of  constitution  making.  — 
Critic. 

War  of  independence,  with  maps,  index,  and  a biographical  sketch. 
1894.  (Riverside  library  for  young  people.)  [With  maps.  i6mo.]  $0.75. 

(For  young  readers).  Collateral  reading,  p.  195-196. 

More  a study  of  causes  and  effects  than  an  account  of  battles.  Good  supplement  to  school  text- 
books. — Carnegie  library  (Pittsburg). 

[The  War  of  Independence,  addressed  to  a youthful  audience,  has  all  the  charm  of  Mr.  Fiske’s 
historical  work  that  is  addressed  to  older  or  more  experienced  minds.  In  his  preface  the  author 
says,  “When  I was  a boy  I should  have  been  glad  to  get  hold  of  a brief  account  of  the  War  of  Inde- 
pendence that  would  have  suggested  answers  to  some  of  the  questions  that  used  to  vex  me.”  . . . 
All  these  puzzles  are  satisfactorily  solved  in  this  little  book.  — Hartford  Courant .] 

973*7  War  o j secession 

Dodge,  T.  A. 

Bird’s-eye  view  of  our  civil  war.  Revised  ed.  1897.  (Student’s  edi- 
tion.) [With  maps  and  charts.  Crown  8vo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Tone  elevated  and  fair,  conception  of  military  operations  comprehensive  and  criticisms  on  them 
judicious.  — Nation. 

New  maps  from  government  surveys  and  charts.  — Preface. 

[The  book  is  written  in  a spirit  of  impartiality  and  of  just  discrimination  concerning  the  merits 
and  defects  of  the  generals  who  led  the  armies  of  the  North  and  South.  — Army  and  Navy  Journal. 

A clearer,  more  vivid  view,  a more  accurate  outline,  than  any  other  available  record.  — Saturday 
Review  (London).] 

Fiske,  John. 

Mississippi  valley  in  the  civil  war.  1900.  [With  maps.  Crown  8vo, 
gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Readable.)  Outline  of  military  events  which  brought  about  overthrow  of  Southern  confederacy 
by  turning  its  left  flank.  — Author. 

[His  account  of  the  Western  campaigns,  taken  as  a whole,  is  one  of  the  clearest  and  most  satis- 
factory that  has  been  written,  irrespective  of  any  possible  points  of  controversy,  and  it  has  the  great 
advantage  of  a simple,  dignified,  and  interesting  style,  that  makes  the  work  worth  reading  as  litera- 
ture. — Philadelphia  T imes.] 

Higginson,  T.  W. 

Army  life  in  a black  regiment;  new  ed.  with  notes  and  supplementary 
chapter.  1900.  [i2mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

Without  extravagance  or  exaggeration.  — Atlantic  monthly. 


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Kieffer,  H.  M. 

Recollections  of  a drummer-boy.  6th  ed.  1889.  [Illustrated.  Sq. 

8vo.]  $1.50. 

(For  young  readers.)  Does  not  deal  at  all  with  strategy,  and  in  description  of  battles  presents 
mostly  the  scenes  at  the  rear.  — Nation. 

[A  true  story  of  the  experiences  of  a young  man  in  the  Civil  War.  It  is  stirring  and  realistic,  and 
holds  the  attention  throughout.  The  illustrations  of  scenes  in  camp  and  battlefield  are  numerous. 
Many  of  the  incidents  related  are  laughable  as  well  as  thrilling.  It  is  a book  to  be  enjoyed  by  every 
one,  and  especially  by  boys,  who  will  be  spellbound  from  beginning  to  end.  — New  York  School 
Journal.] 

Livermore,  T.  L. 

Numbers  and  losses  in  the  civil  war  in  America,  1861-65.  2d  ed. 

1901.  [8vo.]  $1.00,  net.  [Postpaid.] 

Presents  subject  in  clear  and  simple  language,  and  in  a soldierly  and  most  impartial  manner.  Of 
intrinsic  value.  — American  historical  review. 

Wise,  J.  S. 

End  of  an  era.  1899.  [Large  crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Readable.)  Personal  memories  to  end  of  civil  war  (his  19th  year)  of  a son  of  Gov.  Wise  of 
Virginia.  Valuable  for  sidelights  on  social  and  political  life.  — New  York  state  library. 

974  Northeastern  or  North  Atlantic . New  England 

Fiske,  John. 

The  beginnings  of  New  England;  or,  The  puritan  theocracy  in  its  rela- 
tions to  civil  and  religious  liberty.  1900.  [With  maps  and  illustrations. 

Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $2.00. 

(Readable.)  Substance  of  lectures  given  at  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  1887. 

Avoids  historic  details,  and  undertakes  to  group  ideas  and  characterize  phases  of  civilization.  — 
Political  science  quarterly. 

[Mr.  Fiske  lays  hold  of  the  history  with  a broad,  philosophical  grasp,  . . . and  the  result  is  a 
brief  volume  written  in  a fascinating  style,  which  contains  the  substance  of  the  history  and  is  worth 
reading  once,  twice,  or  as  many  times  as  are  required  to  master  it.  — The  Independent  (New  York).] 

Palfrey,  J.  G. 

Compendious  history  of  New  England  from  the  discovery  by  Europeans 

to  the  first  general  congress  of  the  Anglo-American  colonies.  4 v. 

1884.  [Crown  8vo,  in  box.]  $6.00. 

Abridgment  of  larger  work  by  omission  of  notes  and  references,  and  chapters  on  progress  of 
events  in  England  during  1 7th  century,  and  by  cutting  down  some  parts  of  text.  — Literature  of 
American  history. 

Weeden,  W.  B. 

Economic  and  social  history  of  New  England,  1620-1789.  2 v.  1890. 

[Crown  8 vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.50. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.  Readable.)  Best  book  yet  written  from  which  to  obtain 
an  idea  of  the  life  in  colonial  and  provincial  New  England.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[The  work  is  full  of  suggestive  and  vital  information  about  New  England,  . . . literally  a store- 
house of  historical  data  of  the  utmost  value  to  one  who  would  learn  how  the  New  England  colonists 
first  subdued  the  earth,  and  thus  in  securing  their  own  fortunes  built  up  the  framework  on  which 
mighty  States  were  to  grow.  — New  York  Times.] 


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974-3  Vermont 

Robinson,  R.  E. 

Vermont,  a study  of  independence.  1892.  (American  common- 
wealths.) [With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Reliable  and  well  written;  from  settlement  till  admission  into  the  union.  — Literature  oj  American 
history. 

974.4  Massachusetts 

Adams,  C.  F.,  Jr. 

Massachusetts;  its  historians  and  its  history.  1893.  [Crown  8vo,  gilt 
top.]  $1.00. 

Brief  discussion  of  place  of  Massachusetts  in  history  of  civilization.  The  feature  specially  empha- 
sized is  religious  tolerance.  A very  suggestive  book.  — Literature  oj  American  history. 

Three  episodes  of  Massachusetts  history;  the  settlement  of  Boston  Bay; 
the  Antinomian  controversy;  a study  of  church  and  town  government. 
2 v.  1892.  [With  maps.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

Shortcomings  as  well  as  creditable  things  stated.  No  more  trustworthy  delineation  of  the  life 
of  a New  England  town  has  ever  been  known.  — Literature  oj  American  history. 

[Mr.  Adams,  within  his  thousand  pages,  has  brought  together  an  extended  mass  of  facts  in  local 
history.  They  are  carefully  grouped  and  coordinated,  and  the  author  supplies  us  with  such  inde- 
pendence in  judgment,  combined  with  a spirit  of  critical  and  historical  analysis,  that  the  work, 
instead  of  being  a chronicle,  is  an  extended  historical  essay.  — New  York  Times. 

Both  in  conception  and  execution  this  is  a most  excellent  piece  of  work.  — The  English  Historical 
Review.] 

Arber,  Edward,  editor. 

Story  of  the  pilgrim  fathers,  1606-1623  A.  D.,  as  told  by  themselves,  their 
friends,  and  their  enemies.  1897.  [i2mo.]  $2.00. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Extracts  from  original  documents  interspersed  with 
valuable  comment.  Treats  of  the  ecclesiastic  conflict  in  England  and  Holland  and  of  New  England 
colonization.  — New  York  state  library. 

Griffis,  W.  E. 

The  pilgrims  in  their  three  homes;  England,  Holland,  America.  1898. 
[With  illustrations.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

(Popular  treatment.)  A vigorous,  rhetorical  account  of  the  pilgrim  fathers.  Polemic  rather 
than  historical.  — Literature  oj  American  history. 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel. 

Grandfather’s  chair  and  Biographical  stories;  with  a biographical 
sketch,  notes  and  illustrations.  (Riverside  school  library.)  [Crown 
8vo.]  $0.70,  net . [Postpaid.] 

(For  young  readers.) 

974.6  Connecticut 

Johnston,  Alexander. 

Connecticut,  with  supplementary  chapter  by  Clive  Day.  New  edition. 
1903.  (American  commonwealths.)  [With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.] 
$1.25. 


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Bibliography,  p.  415-418. 

Well-written  history,  making  enthusiastic  claims  for  Connecticut  in  the  development  of  the 
national  idea.  — New  York  state  library. 

[Professor  Johnston’s  monograph  on  Connecticut  is  compact,  and  yet  comprehensive;  pictur- 
esque, and  yet  true  to  facts;  w’ell  written,  and  yet  not  ambitious;  appreciative,  and  yet  not  foolishly 
laudatory;  interesting,  and  yet  not  overloaded  with  color.  — New  York  Times.] 

974.7  New  York 
Roberts,  E.  H. 

New  York;  with  supplementary  chapter  dealing  with  the  period  from 
1885  to  1900.  2 v.  1904.  (American  commonwealths.)  [With  map. 

i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $2.50. 

Well-balanced  general  history.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

975  Southeastern  or  South  Atlantic 

975.2  Maryland 
Browne,  W.  H. 

Maryland,  the  history  of  a palatinate.  Revised  ed.  1904.  (Amer- 
ican commonwealths.)  [With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Well-written  and  reliable  outline.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[With  great  care  and  labor  he  has  sought  out  and  studied  original  documents.  By  the  aid  of 
these  he  is  able  to  give  his  work  a value  and  interest  that  would  have  been  impossible  had  he  fol- 
lowed slavishly  the  commonly  accepted  authorities  on  his  subject.  His  investigation  in  regard  to 
toleration  in  Maryland  is  particularly  noticeable.  — New  York  Evening  Post.] 

975*5  Virginia 
Cooke,  J.  E. 

Virginia;  a history  of  the  people;  new  ed.  with  supplementary  chapter 
by  W.  G.  Brown.  1903.  (American  commonwealths.)  [With  map. 
i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Admirable,  solidly  constructed  and  dramatically  told.  — Literary  world. 

Chief  value  lies  in  its  successful  appeal  to  the  popular  mind  through  its  attractive  literary  style.  — 
Literature  of  American  history. 

976  South  Central  or  Gulf  States 

976.4  Texas 

Garrison,  G.  P. 

Texas;  a study  of  civilizations.  1903.  (American  commonwealths.) 
[With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.10,  net.  [Postage,  10  cents.] 

(Readable.)  Author  had  access  to  state  archives,  and  has  made  good  use  of  the  rich  materials. 
Throws  sidelights  on  course  of  the  commonwealth  in  its  relation  to  expansion  of  our  territory  to  the 
Rio  Grande  and  the  Pacific.  — Dial. 

976.8  Tennessee 
Phelan,  James. 

History  of  Tennessee.  1888.  [With  map.  Crown  8vo,  gilt  top.] 
$2.00. 


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HISTORY 


List  of  authorities,  p.  446-461. 

The  making  of  the  state  in  all  its  phases  told  in  vigorous  English.  The  best  history  of  a southern 
state.  Stops  with  outbreak  of  civil  war.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[The  history  of  no  State  in  the  Union  is  more  romantically  interesting  than  that  of  Tennessee. 
The  processes  by  which  a wilderness  was  transformed  into  gardens,  the  various  stages  of  develop- 
ment from  primitive  rudeness  to  civilization  and  refinement,  from  disorganization  to  organization, 
from  the  absence  of  all  law  to  a time  when  a people  nearly  two  millions  strong  dwell  together  in 
peace  and  good  order,  are  unfolded  in  the  volume  before  us  with  consummate  skill  and  good 
taste.  — Magazine  of  American  History .] 

976.9  Kentucky 
Shaler,  N.  S. 

Kentucky.  1885.  (American  commonwealths.)  [With  map.  i6mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Author  qualified  by  long  personal  knowledge  of  men  and  events.  Presents  a vivid  picture  of  the 
events  of  civil  war  and  of  the  period  of  “ reconstruction.”  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[The  author,  himself  a son  of  Kentucky  and  a soldier  on  the  Union  side  in  the  levies  she  fur- 
nished, then  trained  later  in  the  school  of  accurate  scientific  research,  has  all  the  qualities  of  local 
knowledge  and  pride,  and  of  broad,  impartial  reasoning  on  effects  and  causes,  to  fit  him  for  the 
work  he  has  undertaken.  ...  A singular  fairness  of  mind,  bom  of  the  scientific  spirit,  character- 
izes the  way  in  which  the  writer  tells  the  story  of  his  native  State.  — Boston  Herald .] 

977  North  Central  or  Lake  States 

Hosmer,  J.  K. 

Short  history  of  the  Mississippi  valley.  1901.  [i2mo.]  $1.20,  net. 

[Postage,  12  cents.] 

(Readable.)  To  end  of  19th  century.  — New  York  state  library. 

Winsor,  Justin. 

The  Mississippi  basin;  the  struggle  in  America  between  England  and 
France,  1697-1763.  1895.  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

(Scholarly ; by  a recognized  authority.)  Full  cartographic  illustrations  from  contemporary 
sources.  — Title. 

Closes  with  final  triumph  of  England  over  France  in  North  America  in  1763.  — Literature  of 
American  history. 

Westward  movement;  the  colonies  and  the  republic  west  of  the  Alle- 
ghanies,  1763-1798.  1897.  [Illustrated.  8vo,  gilt  top.]  $4.00. 

(Scholarly;  by  a recognized  authority.)  Full  cartographic  illustrations  from  contemporary 
sources.  — Title. 

Concludes  story  begun  in  Cartier  to  Frontenac  and  continued  in  The  Mississippi  basin.  — New 
York  state  library. 

977.1  Ohio 

King,  Rufus. 

Ohio,  first  fruits  of  the  ordinance  of  1787;  with  supplementary  chapter 
by  T.  C.  Smith.  Newed.  1903.  (American  commonwealths.)  [With 
map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

[Mr.  King’s  work  is  one  of  the  most  satisfactory  numbers  in  that  excellent  series  of  American 
Commonwealths  to  which  it  belongs.  The  State  has  a history  of  more  than  ordinary  importance 
and  interest.  In  this  volume  its  story  is  told  in  a clear  and  effective  manner.  — Boston  T rans- 
cript .] 


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89 


977.2  Indiana 
Dunn,  J.  P. 

Indiana,  a redemption  from  slavery.  1888.  (American  common- 
i wealths.)  [With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Best  accessible  account  of  struggle  to  break  down  prohibition  of  slavery  in  ordinance  of  1787.  — 
Literature  of  American  history. 

[The  work  is  a history  of  Indiana’s  civil  growth,  and  as  such  it  will  be  found  of  absorbing  interest, 
not  only  to  us  of  Indiana,  but  to  all  citizens  of  the  original  Northwest  territory.  — New  Record 
(Indianapolis).] 

977.4  Michigan 

Cooley,  T.  M. 

Michigan;  a history  of  governments.  4th  ed.  1889.  (American 
commonwealths.)  [With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

In  every  way  worthy  of  the  subject  and  of  the  series.  — Literature  of  American  history. 

[Other  States  cover  only  special  lines,  as  it  were,  of  political  history;  Michigan  seems  to  have 
covered  the  whole,  and  hence  furnishes  an  admirable  field  for  a history  of  governments.  More 
fortunate  still,  she  has  in  J udge  Cooley  a man  of  great  and  acknowledged  ability,  learning,  and  au- 
thority upon  all  such  themes.  . . . From  its  distinguished  author,  but  even  more  from  its  pro- 
foundly valuable  subject-matter,  this  is  a work  to  repay  abundantly  the  diligent  study  of  all  our 
citizens.  — Literary  World  (Boston).] 

, 978  Western  or  Mountain  States 

978.1  Kansas 
Spring,  L.  W. 

Kansas.  1885.  (American  commonwealths.)  [With  map.  i6mo, 
gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Bibliography,  p.  323-327. 

Of  considerable  literary  charm  and  the  most  readable  history  of  Kansas.  Mostly  devoted  to 
period  before  civil  war.  Its  point  of  view  is  that  of  Gov.  Charles  Robinson.  — Literature  of  Ameri- 
can history. 

[Professor  Spring  has  been  diligent  in  research  to  a degree  that  merits  special  praise,  and  his 
diligence  has  been  inspired  and  controlled  by  method,  so  that  it  has  borne  rich  fruits.  — The 
Examiner  (New  York). 

It  is  an  excellent  presentation  of  the  important  aspects  and  vital  principles  of  the  Kansas  strug- 
gle. — Hartford  Courant.] 

979  Pacific  States 

979.4  California 

Royce,  Josiah. 

California,  a study  of  American  character.  1886.  (American  common- 
wealths.) [With  map.  i6mo,  gilt  top.]  $1.25. 

Formative  years,  1846-56;  scientific,  sober  and  vivid.  — Literary  world. 

[The  study  is  one  of  sociological  changes,  never  before  known  because  the  sociological  conditions 
have  never  before  existed  in  history.  The  problem  is  new  and  most  fascinating.  Every  facet  of 
it  has  a distinct  light.  Professor  Royce  has  turned  it  round  and  round,  has  received  its  various 
lights,  and  has  cast  upon  it  some  of  his  own.  . . . The  style  is  as  breezy  as  varied.  — San  Fran- 
cisco Bulletin .] 


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